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Format: xxxiii, 280 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten

ISBN: 9780295747408 , 9780295747385

Content: "China has undergone a remarkable process of urbanization, but a significant portion of its citizens still live in rural villages. To gain better access to jobs, health care, and consumer goods, villagers often travel or migrate to cities, and that cyclical transit and engagement with new technoscientific and medical practices is transforming village life. In this thoughtful ethnography, Gonçalo Santos paints a richly detailed portrait of one rural township in Guangdong Province, north of the industrialized Pearl River Delta region. Unlike previous studies of rural-urban relations and migration in China, Chinese Village Life Today-based on Santos's more than twenty years of field research-starts from a rural community's point of view rather than the perspective of major urban centers. Santos considers the intimate choices of village families in the face of larger forces of modernization, showing how these negotiations shape the configuration of daily village life, from marriage, childbirth, and childcare to personal hygiene and public sanitation. Santos also outlines the advantages of a rural existence, including a degree of autonomy over family planning and community life that is rare in urban China. Filled with vivid anecdotes and keen observations, this book presents a fresh perspective on China's urban-rural divide and a grounded theoretical approach to rural transformation"--

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

Keywords: China ; Guangdong ; Feldforschung ; Landleben ; Familienleben ; Modernisierung ; Wandel ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: IX, 301 Seiten.

ISBN: 978-0-295-99897-8 , 978-0-295-99982-1

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science , Sociology

Keywords: Familie ; Soziologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Format: 432 Seiten

ISBN: 9789896801489

Note: Travel accounts

Language: Portuguese

Subjects: Romance Studies

Keywords: Portugiesisches Sprachgebiet ; Evangelisation

URL: Cover

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: 1 online resource (228 p.)

ISBN: 9781845458508

Content: Friendship is an essential part of human experience, involving ideas of love and morality as well as material and pragmatic concerns. Making and having friends is a central aspect of everyday life in all human societies. Yet friendship is often considered of secondary significance in comparison to domains such as kinship, economics and politics. How important are friends in different cultural contexts? What would a study of society viewed through the lens of friendship look like? Does friendship affect the shape of society as much as society moulds friendship? Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Europe, this volume offers answers to these questions and examines the ideology and practice of friendship as it is embedded in wider social contexts and transformations.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgements -- , Introduction: Valuing Friendship -- , 1. On ‘Same-Year Siblings’ in Rural South China -- , 2. Ayompari, Compadre, Amigo: Forms of Fellowship in Peruvian Amazonia -- , 3. Friendship, Distance and Kinship-Talk Amongst Mozambican Refugees in South Africa -- , 4. Friendship, Kinship and Sociality in a Lebanese Town -- , 5. A Matter of Affection: Ritual Friendship in Central India -- , 6. Close Friends: The Importance of Proximity in Children’s Peer Relations in Chhattisgarh, Central India -- , 7. Making Friends, Making Oneself: Friendship and the Mapuche Person -- , 8. The Value of Friendship: Subject/Object Transformations in the Economy of Becoming a Person (Bermondsey, Southeast London) -- , Afterword: Making Friendship Impure: Some Reflections on a (Still) Neglected Topic -- , Notes on Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781845458508

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781845458508

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781845458508

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Format: 1 online resource (xxxiii, 280 pages) : , illustrations, maps

ISBN: 0-295-74739-0

Content: "China has undergone a remarkable process of urbanization, but a significant portion of its citizens still live in rural villages. To gain better access to jobs, health care, and consumer goods, villagers often travel or migrate to cities, and that cyclical transit and engagement with new technoscientific and medical practices is transforming village life. In this thoughtful ethnography, Gonçalo Santos paints a richly detailed portrait of one rural township in Guangdong Province, north of the industrialized Pearl River Delta region. Unlike previous studies of rural-urban relations and migration in China, Chinese Village Life Today-based on Santos's more than twenty years of field research-starts from a rural community's point of view rather than the perspective of major urban centers. Santos considers the intimate choices of village families in the face of larger forces of modernization, showing how these negotiations shape the configuration of daily village life, from marriage, childbirth, and childcare to personal hygiene and public sanitation. Santos also outlines the advantages of a rural existence, including a degree of autonomy over family planning and community life that is rare in urban China. Filled with vivid anecdotes and keen observations, this book presents a fresh perspective on China's urban-rural divide and a grounded theoretical approach to rural transformation"--

Note: Foreword / by Charles Stafford -- Introduction: Building families in an age of transition -- Harmony Cave families : transition to the twenty-first century -- Love and marriage : the challenge of scientific birth planning -- Women and childbirth : the ambiguities of high-tech medicalization -- Grandparents and labor migration : technologies of multiple mothering -- Flush toilets : the politics of material civilization -- Popular religion : technologies of ethical imagination.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-295-74738-2

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (302 pages)

ISBN: 0-295-99898-9

Content: "Each successive wave of revolution to hit modern China--political, cultural, and economic--has radically reshaped Chinese society. Whereas patriarchy defined the familial social structure for thousands of years, changing realities in the last hundred years have altered and even reversed long-held expectations. Transforming Patriarchy explores the private and public dimensions of these changes in present-day China. Patriarchy is not dead, but it is no longer the default arrangement for Chinese families ... Drawing on a multitude of sources and perspectives, this volume turns to the intimate territory of the family to challenge prevailing scholarly assumptions about gender and generational hierarchies in Chinese society. Case studies examine factors such as social class, geography, and globalization as they relate to patriarchal practice and resistance to it."--Provided by publisher.

Note: Dutiful help : masking rural women's economic contributions / , From care providers to financial burdens : the changing role of sons and reproductive choice in rural Northeast China / , Higher education, gender, and elder support in rural Northwest China / , Multiple mothering and labor migration in rural South China / , Urbanization and the transformation of kinship practice in Shandong / , Being the right woman for "Mr. Right" : marriage and household politics in present-day Nanjing / , Emergent conjugal love, mutual affection, and female marital power / , Under pressure : lesbian-gay contract marriages and their patriarchal bargains / , Patriarchal investments : expectations of male authority and support in a poor Beijing neighborhood / , Taking patriarchy out of postpartum recovery? , Assisted reproductive technologies, sperm donation, and biological kinship : a recent Chinese media debate / Kerstin Klein ; , Recalibrating filial piety : realigning the state, family, and market interests in China /

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-295-99897-0

Language: English

Keywords: History. ; History.