Responding to a growing interest in the nature and place of family in society, this text looks at gender, families, family relationships and the role of larger kin groups from a cross-cultural perspective. It draws upon ethnographic accounts and cross-cultural studies to determine and illustrate possible characteristics and outcomes, highlight options that occur more or less frequently, and—where possible—to account for choices made.

Sex, Gender, and Kinship: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

Self-Help

Ember, Carol R.

Ember, Melvin

Pasternak, Burton

Pearson

Introduction to Kinship and Social Organization

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

PRENTICE/HALL

Using data from the Taiwan household registers established by Japanese colonial authorities from 1906 to 1946, Pasternak explores the sources and demographic consequences of variations in marriage and family life and questions long-held assumptions about the nature of Chinese society.

Guests in the Dragon

Columbia University Press

We know the Chinese as villagers who carefully tend small plots of land using family labor, marry young, want many sons, and live in extended families―"the Chinese Way." Now for the first time we find Han Chinese "cowboys" who raise dairy cows and herd sheep on the Inner Mongolian grasslands. This book, based on surveys and intensive interviews, compares family lives, the economy, and gender relations among Chinese herders and farmers. The authors find that livestock have brought new wealth and opportunities that change the Chinese farming-based way of life, and they explore how privatization has altered the distribution of wealth. Although Han and Mongols still have their own cultures, those who herd livestock share a common way of life distinct from farmers that are nearby.

Cowboys And Cultivators: The Chinese Of Inner Mongolia

Anthropology

Routledge

The Social Sciences And Fieldwork In China: Views From The Field

Thurston, Anne F.

Reference

Kinship and Community in Two Chinese Villages

Stanford Univ Pr

A book which explores the relationship between the environmental, ecological and political forces encountered by families in inner Mongolia and the means they employ to deal with these forces.

Salaff, Janet W.

Westview Press

Book by Thurston, Anne F. And Burton Pasternak (Ed. )

History

Asia

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