Title: Cantonese society in Hong Kong and Singapore
Description: The volume collects the published articles of Dr. Marjorie Topley, who was a pioneer in the field of social anthropology in the postwar period and also the first president of the revived Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Her ethnographic research in Singapore and Hong Kong set a high standard for urban anthropology, and helped creating the fields of religious studies, migration studies, gender studies, and medical anthropology, focusing on topics that remain current and important in the disciplines.
Subjects: Religion, Chinese Medicine, Economic conditions, Chinese, Emigration and immigration, Hong Kong, Social life and customs, Cultural Anthropology, Collected Works, Economics, Chinese Traditional Medicine
Places: China, Hong Kong, Singapore