Modalities of Change

The Interface of Tradition and Modernity in East Asia
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-568-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

While in some cases modernity may dominate 'traditional' forms of expression, in others, the modern is embraced as a welcome source of new ideas that can modify 'tradition' while still keeping it within its own bounds. Maintaining a strong and distinct cultural identity with the help of modernity helps representatives of that identity cope with the modern world more generally. By contrast, assimilation to a dominant culture marked as modern is clearly associated with not only the loss of a distinct identity, but also its specific forms of cultural expression. This book explores the consequences of the interface between modernity and tradition in selected societies in Taiwan, mainland China and Vietnam. The contributors examine how traditions are themselves exploiting modernity in creative ways, in the interests of their own further cultural developments, and to what extent this approach is likely to help a tradition survive.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilkerson, James

Parkin, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse

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

Über Autor(innen)

Parkin, Robert
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.

Wilkerson, James
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.

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.