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Marriage and adoption in a Hokkien villageBook 1969 • Wolf, Arthur P.
Taiwan Hokkien • Asia > East Asia
This work examines the alternatives that the social structure of Hsiachichou, a small Hokkien community in north Taiwan, offers in the way of choosing marriage and adoption forms. This structural study is based upon the genealogies of 843 persons, co...Gods, ghosts, and ancestorsessay 1974 • Wolf, Arthur P.
Taiwan Hokkien • Asia > East Asia
This is a study of Taiwanese peasant religion as depicted from native concepts and practices associated with the hierarchy of gods, beliefs about ghosts, and the ever-present ancestor worship. Data were gathered intermittently between 1957 and 1970 f...Marriage and adoption in northern Taiwanessay 1974 • Wolf, Arthur P.
Taiwan Hokkien • Asia > East Asia
This essay describes and discusses the various forms of marriage in northern Taiwan. The most salient differences among forms are in: whether or not spouse aquisition entails adoption; post-marital residence pattern; social placement of children; and...Childhood association, sexual attraction, and fertility in Taiwanessay 1976 • Wolf, Arthur P.
Taiwan Hokkien • Asia > East Asia
This essay discusses criticisms of Wolf's thesis that sim-pua (marriage to an adopted sister) matches are lower in fertility because the spouses are sexually uninterested in one another. Wolf uses statistical comparisons of age and fertility among va...Aspects of ancestor worship in northern Taiwanessay 1976 • Wolf, Arthur P.
Taiwan Hokkien • Asia > East Asia
This essay discusses the relationships among lineage affiliation, ancestor worship, possession and location of the ancestor tablets which are used in worship, and inheritance....Childhood association, sexual attraction, and the incest tabooarticle 1966 • Wolf, Arthur P.
Taiwan Hokkien • Asia > East Asia
This source, based on data from a Chuanchou village, examines anthropological theories of the incest taboo. Of greatest interest to the author is the sim-pua form of marriage in which the prospective bride is adopted as a child into the home of the g...Adopt a daughter-in-law, marry a sisterarticle 1968 • Wolf, Arthur P.
Taiwan Hokkien • Asia > East Asia
In this source, the author explores the preference of Taiwanese for 'minor marriage', by which son's wives are brought up as adopted daughters. Since the girl's latter status reduces the possibility for tension to develop between herself and her futu...Childhood association and sexual attractionarticle 1970 • Wolf, Arthur P.
Taiwan Hokkien • Asia > East Asia
This is another source presenting further evidence of the validity of the psychological theory of the incest taboo. The author presents statistical evidence comparing the major and minor forms of marriage regarding divorce, adultery, and the average ...Marriage and adoption in China, 1845-1945Book 1980 • Wolf, Arthur P. & Huang, Chieh-shan
Taiwan Hokkien • Asia > East Asia
This is an in-depth study of marriage and adoption practices in nine districts of northern Taiwan between the years 1845-1945. The bulk of the data is drawn from Japanese family life and household surveys conducted during their occupation of Taiwan, ...