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Willow Pond Village: Family, marriage, and social stratification in a Yangzi Delta farming community.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Willow Pond Village: Family, marriage, and social stratification in a Yangzi Delta farming community./
Author:	Murphy, Eugene Thomas.
Description:	272 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-06, Section: A, page: 1614.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International55-06A.
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9427118

Willow Pond Village: Family, marriage, and social stratification in a Yangzi Delta farming community.
Murphy, Eugene Thomas.

Willow Pond Village: Family, marriage, and social stratification in a Yangzi Delta farming community. - 272 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-06, Section: A, page: 1614.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 1994.

This dissertation explores the relations between rural Chinese political economy from 1930 to 1990 and the transformations of cultural practice over that time among families in Willow Pond Village, a rice-farming community of 760 individuals located 50 km. west of Shanghai, People's Republic of China. Strategies of domestic organization, resource allocation, network building, and marriage alliances are analyzed in their symbolic and historical contexts in order to describe loci of cultural continuity and change, and explore patterns of social stratification. The study is based on participant observation fieldwork and 160 semi-structured interviews conducted during eight months of residence with a local family (May-October 1990,) and supplemented by documentary research.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Cultural anthropology.

Willow Pond Village: Family, marriage, and social stratification in a Yangzi Delta farming community.
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520 $a This dissertation explores the relations between rural Chinese political economy from 1930 to 1990 and the transformations of cultural practice over that time among families in Willow Pond Village, a rice-farming community of 760 individuals located 50 km. west of Shanghai, People's Republic of China. Strategies of domestic organization, resource allocation, network building, and marriage alliances are analyzed in their symbolic and historical contexts in order to describe loci of cultural continuity and change, and explore patterns of social stratification. The study is based on participant observation fieldwork and 160 semi-structured interviews conducted during eight months of residence with a local family (May-October 1990,) and supplemented by documentary research.
520 $a After an ecological and historical overview, the family (jia) is examined as structure and process. A literature review considers problems of definition and the difficulties Western theorists have faced in interpreting the habitus which generates and is reproduced by family dynamics. Detailed data on Willow Pond family size, structure, and division/formation practices are examined, revealing periods of demographic stress in the community, particularly small average family size, a long-standing tendency to early family division, a somewhat attenuated patrilineal emphasis, and the resilience of the basic principles of family organization over time.
520 $a Supra-jia kin groups and processes are examined next. Lineage organization was not strong here, but local agnatic descent groups, zegazei, are recognized, with permeable boundaries that mark bodies of official and practical kin. By manipulation of kinship terminology and fictive kinship (ganqin), matrilateral and affinal kin can be encompassed in a patrilineal idiom, and social differentiation mystified as reciprocal solidarity.
520 $a Finally, marriage patterns and practices over 60 years are discussed as strategies of social reproduction. Description and analysis of marriage economics and ritual through time reveal signs of assortative pairing, suggesting processes of class formation. The dissertation concludes with a summary of significant findings and a suggestion that such re-stratification may lead to serious polarization as the pace of modernization continues.
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