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- Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore: Gender, Religion, Medicine and Money
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Hong Kong University Press, HKU
- Series: Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies
summary
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. The essays in this collection showcase Dr. Topley’s groundbreaking contributions in several areas of scholarship. These include “Chinese Women’s Vegetarian Houses in Singapore” (1954) and “The Great Way of Former Heaven: A Group of Chinese Secret Religious Sects” (1963), both important research on the study of subcultural groups in a complex urban society; “Marriage Resistance in Rural Kwangtung” (1978), now a classic in Chinese anthropology and women’s studies; her widely known and cited article, “Cosmic Antagonisms: A Mother-Child Syndrome” (1974), which investigates widely shared everyday practices and cosmological explanations that Cantonese mothers invoked when they encountered difficulties in child-rearing; and “Capital, Saving and Credit among Indigenous Rice Farmers and Immigrant Vegetable Farmers in Hong Kong's New Territories” (2004 [1964]).
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. vii-x
- Part I: Chinese Ritual Practice in Singapore
- Part II: Religious Associations in Singapore and China
- Part III: Economy and Society: Hong Kong and Guangdong
- Part IV: Religion and Society: Hong Kong and Guangdong
- Part V: Chinese and Western Medicine in Hong Kong
- Appendix: Glossary of Chinese Terms
- pp. 549-572
Additional Information
ISBN
9789888053650
Related ISBN(s)
9789888028146
MARC Record
OCLC
778340237
Pages
624
Launched on MUSE
2011-07-21
Language
English
Open Access
No