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

Other author Wilkerson, James, 1951-
Other author Parkin, Robert, 1950-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Descriptionx, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2012012478
ISBN9780857455680 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN0857455680 (hardback : alk. paper)