Modalities of Change (eBook)

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.

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.

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