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Informationen zum Autor James Wilkerson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Institute of Anthropology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. He received his PhD degree in anthropology from the University of Virginia. He has conducted research on religion, kinship and social history in the Penghu Islands, Taiwan and in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China. Robert Parkin is a Departmental Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. He has also taught at the University of Kent at Canterbury, Oxford Brookes University and the Free University of Berlin. His main thematic interests are in kinship, religion and symbolism, ethnicity, nationalism and regional identity and the history of French anthropology, on all of which he has published extensively. Klappentext Examines the interface between modernity and tradition in selected societies in Taiwan, mainland China and Vietnam Explores how modernity may place "traditional" forms of expression at a disadvantage and how modernity is embraced into "tradition" to change it Questions to what extent traditions are themselves exploiting modernity in creative ways Zusammenfassung Examines the interface between modernity and tradition in selected societies in Taiwan, mainland China and Vietnam Explores how modernity may place “traditional” forms of expression at a disadvantage and how modernity is embraced into “tradition” to change it Questions to what extent traditions are themselves exploiting modernity in creative ways Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface James Wilkerson and Robert Parkin Introduction James Wilkerson and Robert Parkin Part I: People's Republic of China Chapter 1. The house, the state and change: the modernity of Sichuan Gyalrong Tibetans Ting-yu Wang Chapter 2. From kinship to state and back again: lineage and history in a Qiang village Liu Biyun Chapter 3. Embroidery speaks: what does Miao embroidery tell us? Ho Zhaohua Chapter 4. Tensions between romantic love and marriage: performing 'Miao cultural individuality' in an upland Miao love song Chien Mei-ling Chapter 5. Modalities of the one-child policy among urban migrants in China Chang Kuei-min Chapter 6. The culture of World Cultural Heritage Eveline Bingaman Part II: Taiwan and Vietnam Chapter 7. 'Amis hip hop': the bodily expressions of contemporary young Amis in Taiwan Futuru C. L. Tsai Chapter 8. Contesting memory: the shifting power of narration in contemporary Paiwan contexts Li-Ju Hong Chapter 9. Ethnicity as strategy: Taiwan state policies and the Thao Yayoi Mitsuda Chapter 10. On the 'third morning': the continuity of life from past to present among the Nung of northern Vietnam N. Jenny Hsu Afterword: Performance as a mechanism for social change James Wilkerson ...
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James Wilkerson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Institute of Anthropology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. He received his PhD degree in anthropology from the University of Virginia. He has conducted research on religion, kinship and social history in the Penghu Islands, Taiwan and in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China.
Robert Parkin is a Departmental Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. He has also taught at the University of Kent at Canterbury, Oxford Brookes University and the Free University of Berlin. His main thematic interests are in kinship, religion and symbolism, ethnicity, nationalism and regional identity and the history of French anthropology, on all of which he has published extensively.
