Tanners Of Taiwan
Subtitle: Life Strategies and National Culture (Westview Case Studies in Anthropology)
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: March 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780813341934
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; Social Science; Ethnology; History - General History; Sociology; Taiwan; Anthropology - General; Asia - General; Anthropology - Cultural; Group identity; Tanners
Description: "Tanners of Taiwan is an ethnography of identity construction set in the leather-tanning communities of Southern Taiwan. Through life history analysis and ethnographic observation, author Scott Simon examines what it means to be Chinese - or alternatively Taiwanese - in contemporary Taiwan." "Tanners of Taiwan provides more than a description of work-places in Taiwan. Looking at the different perspectives of tanners, women managers, and workers, it demonstrates how cultural and other identities are constructed through dynamics of power and political economy."--BOOK JACKET.