In One's Own Shadow
Subtitle: An Ethnographic Account of the Condition of Post-reform Rural China
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: August 7, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780520219946
Subjects: Asian studies; Ethnography; Social & cultural anthropology; c 1990 to c 2000; Rural development; Asia - China; Sociology - Rural; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Social change; Sociology; China; Shaanxi Sheng; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Anthropology - General; Rural conditions; Shaanxi Sheng (China); Social life and customs
First sentence: Zhaojiahe consists of a descent group based on agnatic ties; a com ancestor can be traced through a written genealogy, which has been kept in a relatively good form