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A Localized Culture of Welfare

- Entitlements, Stratification, and Identity in a Chinese Lineage Village
Af: Kwok-shing Chan Engelsk Hardback

A Localized Culture of Welfare

- Entitlements, Stratification, and Identity in a Chinese Lineage Village
Af: Kwok-shing Chan Engelsk Hardback
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Hong Kong has undergone rapid and substantial social, economic, political and demographic changes since the 1970s. This book examines critically the real impact of these changes on a single surname village in rural Hong Kong. It draws on anthropological fieldwork conducted during the late 1990s and the early 2000s. This ethnographic study demonstrates that kinship, particularly agnatic kinship, has remained a valuable resource for Pang villagers, enabling them to acquire key welfare entitlements, and to secure a good measure of economic and social well-being. Kinship affiliation has provided and still provides (admittedly differential) access to political patronage and legal entitlements, financial assistance and the substantial benefits of corporate property-holding, physical protection and political leadership, employment, care-giving and support networks, housing needs, old age security, a ritually-imagined community, with a sense of spiritual well-being.  Agnatic kinship has been organized as a corporate institution and as a quasi-religious community through which substantial support, protection, and privileged access is provided for villagers. At the same time, reliance on this elaborate “localized culture of welfare” has maintained or reinforced the contours of stratification and inequality among Pang villagers, even as lineage identity has remained largely intact in the face of changing external circumstances.
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Hong Kong has undergone rapid and substantial social, economic, political and demographic changes since the 1970s. This book examines critically the real impact of these changes on a single surname village in rural Hong Kong. It draws on anthropological fieldwork conducted during the late 1990s and the early 2000s. This ethnographic study demonstrates that kinship, particularly agnatic kinship, has remained a valuable resource for Pang villagers, enabling them to acquire key welfare entitlements, and to secure a good measure of economic and social well-being. Kinship affiliation has provided and still provides (admittedly differential) access to political patronage and legal entitlements, financial assistance and the substantial benefits of corporate property-holding, physical protection and political leadership, employment, care-giving and support networks, housing needs, old age security, a ritually-imagined community, with a sense of spiritual well-being.  Agnatic kinship has been organized as a corporate institution and as a quasi-religious community through which substantial support, protection, and privileged access is provided for villagers. At the same time, reliance on this elaborate “localized culture of welfare” has maintained or reinforced the contours of stratification and inequality among Pang villagers, even as lineage identity has remained largely intact in the face of changing external circumstances.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 236
ISBN-13: 9780739166871
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0739166875
Kategori: Social- & Kulturantropologi
Udg. Dato: 25 okt 2012
Længde: 21mm
Bredde: 157mm
Højde: 237mm
Forlag: Lexington Books
Oplagsdato: 25 okt 2012
Forfatter(e): Kwok-shing Chan
Forfatter(e) Kwok-shing Chan

Kategori Social- & Kulturantropologi

ISBN-13 9780739166871

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 236

Udgave

Længde 21mm

Bredde 157mm

Højde 237mm

Udg. Dato 25 okt 2012

Oplagsdato 25 okt 2012

Forlag Lexington Books