Santos, Gonçalo D. (2006) The anthropology of Chinese kinship: a critical overview. European Journal of East Asian Studies, 5 (2). pp. 275-333. ISSN 1568-0584
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This is a critical overview of the anthropology of Chinese kinship focusing on the twentieth-century Euro-American literature. I first deal with the less well-known early literature of the period before the foundation and closure of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. I then show how the thematic and theoretical heterogeneity of this early literature was superseded during the 1960s and 1970s by a powerful but reductive paradigmatic lineage model of Chinese kinship and society, largely derived from documentary-based studies of lineage organisation in the late imperial period and consolidated through field research in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Inspired by earlier critics of this lineage-model, tuned in to new anthropological trends in the field of kinship studies and triggered by the post-Mao opening of the PRC, the 1990s marked the beginning of a very heterogeneous cycle of renovation generated by new field research. Seen as a whole, this current cycle of renovation has been undertaking a revision of the older descent-centred comparative view of Chinese kinship and is giving important insights to current anthropological debates about the nature of human kinship.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.brill.nl/ejea |
| Additional Information: | © 2006 BRILL |
| Divisions: | Anthropology |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jan 2010 10:45 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 23:02 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/26583 |
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