Book
Ploughshare village: culture and context in Taiwan
University of Washington Press • (35) • Published In 1982 • Pages: ix, 234
By: Harrell, Stevan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an ethnography of the village of Ploughshare (Li-she-wei), a community of coal miners, located in the southwestern Taibei Basin of Taiwan Island in the area known as Haishan. Primary emphasis is on the socio-economic system of the Taiwan Hokkien, their social organization, and religion. Harrell describes Ploughshare's place in the series of socio-economic systems of which it is part, and concomitant changes in the society over time from the founding of the village in the nineteenth century until ca. 1978. Harrell also describes the changing nature of work available to the villagers, social inequality and social relationships within the community, family structure, and religion.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- Sociocultural trends
- Cereal agriculture
- Arboriculture
- Textile industries
- Real property
- Income and demand
- Labor supply and employment
- Classes
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Household
- Nuclear family
- Extended families
- Community structure
- Cult of the dead
- General character of religion
- Spirits and gods
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Taiwan Hokkien
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1973, 1978 (dustjacket)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ploughshare village [Li-she-wei], Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Stevan Harrell
- Parallel title in Chinese characters
- Includes index.|Bibliography: p. 219-225
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 82008333
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese