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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Ahern, Emily M.
Title:
Affines and the rituals of kinship
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Religion and ritual in Chinese society, edited by Arthur
P. Wolf
Published By: Original publisher
Religion and ritual in Chinese society, edited by Arthur
P. Wolf
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 1974.
279-307, 358 p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Emily Martin Ahern
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 1995. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Taiwan Hokkien (AD05)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Place names (103);
Culture summary (105);
Kin relationships (602);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In contrast with the contradictory findings of other
research conducted in Taiwan, Ahern describes rites of betrothal and marriage and relations
between affines in a village where wife-givers appear 'distinctly superior' in ritual
status to wife-takers' (p. 279). Ahern explains the presiding over of 'rituals of kinship'
by powerful affines by their status as outsiders who are believed capable of fostering
desirable social changes. Ahern suggests that the authority of affines and the great
deference shown them stem from their inherent jural weakness in patrilineal society.
Paradoxically, this weakness empowers them to aid those who have taken their daughters in
marriage to make necessary transitions from one life-cycle role to another.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
22
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
ad05-022
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Essay
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliography
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1969-1970
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is a ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data
Ethnologist-5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
M. A. Marcus
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
not specified
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Ch'i-nan village, Taipei hsien, Hai-shan
region, Taiwan
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Taiwanese
