Kinship, Contract, Community, and State - Anthropological Perspectives on China

Zusatztext "A splendidly useful and revealing collection... a splendid summary of some of Cohen's best and most significant contributions to Chinese anthropology." Informationen zum Autor Myron L. Cohen is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and an affiliate of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. He is the author of House United, House Divided: The Chinese Family in Taiwan, and Asia Case Studies in the Social Sciences: A Guide for Teaching. Klappentext This book examines major areas of late imperial Chinese culture, and their relation to Chinese culture today, focusing on the competence and sophistication of ordinary people. > Zusammenfassung This is an anthropological exploration of the roots of China's modernity in the country's own tradition, as seen especially in economic and kinship patterns.

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• Authors: Myron Cohen, Myron L Cohen, Myron L. Cohen, Cohen Myron
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2005
• EAN: 9780804750660
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5066-0
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Studies of the East Asian Inst; Studies of the Weatherhead Eas; Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology