Modalities of change : the interface of tradition and modernity in East Asia / James Wilkerson and Robert Parkin, editors.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Wilkerson, James, 1951-
• Parkin, Robert, 1950-
• Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Ethnology--East Asia.
• Ethnology.
• Manners and customs.
• Social change.
• East Asia.
• Social change--East Asia.
• National characteristics, Asian.
• Civilization, Modern.
• East Asia--Civilization.
• Civilization.
• East Asia--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

x, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, [2012]

Summary:

All but one of the chapters began as presentations at Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, where most of the contributing anthropologists work. They pivot on the interface between tradition and modernity, and focus mostly on minorities in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Vietnam. The topics include the modernity of Sichuan Gyualrong Tibetans, performing Miao cultural individuality in an upland Miao love-song, the culture of world cultural heritage, the bodily expressions of contemporary young Amis in Taiwan, and the continuity of life from past to present among the Nung of northern Vietnam. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

• The house, the state and change : the modernity of Sichuan rGyalrong Tibetans / Wang Ting-yu
• From kinship to state and back again : lineage and history in a Qiang village / Liu Biyun
• Embroidery speaks : what does Miao embroidery tell us? / Ho Zhaohua
• Tensions between romantic love and marriage : performing 'Miao cultural individuality' in an upland Miao love-song / Chien Mei-ling
• Modalities of the one-child policy among urban migrants in China / Chang Kuei-min
• The 'culture' of world cultural heritage / Eveline Bingaman
• 'Amis hip-hop' : the bodily expressions of contemporary young Amis in Taiwan / Futuru C.L. Tsai
• Contesting memory : the shifting power of narration in contemporary Paiwan contexts / Li-Ju Hong
• Ethnicity as strategy : Taiwan state policies and the Thao / Yayoi Mitsuda
• 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

• 0857455680
• 9780857455680

OCLC:

785874510

Publisher Number:

99966641997

Online:

The Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund Home Page