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Children in the Taiwanese fishing community of Angang have their attention drawn, consciously and unconsciously, to various forms of identification through their participation in schooling, family life and popular religion. They read texts about 'virtuous mothers', share 'meaningful foods' with other villagers, visit the altars of 'divining children' and participate in 'dangerous' god-strengthening rituals. In particular they learn about the family-based cycle of reciprocity, and the tension between this and commitment to the nation. Charles Stafford's 1995 study of childhood in this community (with additional material from north-eastern mainland China) explores absorbing issues related to nurturance, education, family, kinship and society in its analysis of how children learn, or do not learn, to identify themselves as both familial and Chinese.

Children --- Child psychology --- Kinship --- Enfants --- Parenté --- Social life and customs --- Family relationships --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Relations familiales --- Psychologie --- S26/0850 --- Taiwan--Education: general --- Manchuria (China) --- -Ankang (Taiwan) --- -China, Northeast --- Northeast China --- S11/0705 --- S11/0731 --- S26/0800 --- Ethnology --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Families --- Kin recognition --- Childhood --- Kids (Children) --- Pedology (Child study) --- Youngsters --- Age groups --- Life cycle, Human --- Behavior, Child --- Child behavior --- Child study --- Pediatric psychology --- Psychology, Child --- Child development --- Developmental psychology --- Psychology --- Child psychiatry --- Child rearing --- Educational psychology --- China: Social sciences--Clan and family: since 1949 --- China: Social sciences--Childhood, youth --- Taiwan--Society in general --- Ankang (Taiwan) --- China, Northeast --- Angang (Taiwan) --- Social life and customs. --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology

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In dealing with the central theme of separation this book also provides a good general introduction to many of the classic debates within anthropological and historical analyses of China.

Separation (Psychology) --- Reunions --- Meetings --- Breaking up (Interpersonal relations) --- Loss of loved one by separation --- Love loss (Psychology) --- Farewells --- Interpersonal relations --- Intimacy (Psychology) --- Loss (Psychology) --- China --- Social life and customs.

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"Drawing on a wide range of anthropological case studies, this book focuses on ordinary ethics in contemporary China. The book examines the kinds of moral and ethical issues that emerge (sometimes almost unnoticed) in the flow of everyday life in Chinese communities. How are schoolchildren judged to be good or bad by their teachers and their peers - and how should a 'bad' student be dealt with? What exactly do children owe their parents, and how should this debt be repaid? Is it morally acceptable to be jealous if one's neighbours suddenly become rich? Should the wrongs of the past be forgotten, e.g. in the interests of communal harmony, or should they be dealt with now? In the case of China, such questions have obviously been shaped by the historical contexts against which they have been posed, and by the weight of various Chinese traditions. But this book approaches them on a human scale. More specifically, it approaches them from an anthropological perspective, based on participation in the flow of everyday life during ethnographic fieldwork in Chinese communities."--Publisher's website.

Ethnology --- Ethics --- China --- Moral conditions. --- Social life and customs.

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Anthropology seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. This title contains essays that explore birth, death and sexuality, puzzles about the relationship between science and religion, questions about the nature of ritual, work and genocide, and our personal fears and desires.

Anthropology --- Anthropologie --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- Anthropology -- Philosophy. --- Anthropology - General --- Social Sciences --- Philosophy --- #SBIB:39A3 --- Antropologie: geschiedenis, theorie, wetenschap (incl. grondleggers van de antropologie als wetenschap) --- Philosophie.

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What is the place of the ethical in human life? How do we render it visible? How might sustained attention to the ethical transform anthropological theory and enrich our understanding of thought, speech, and social action? This volume offers a significant attempt to address these questions. It is a common experience of most ethnographers that the people we encounter are trying to do what they consider right or good, are being evaluated according to criteria of what is right and good, or are in some debate about what constitutes the human good. Yet anthropological theory has tended to overlook all this in favor of analyses that emphasize structure, power, and interest. Bringing together ethnographic exposition with philosophical concepts and arguments and effectively transcending subdisciplinary boundaries between cultural and linguistic anthropology, the essays collected in this volume explore the ethical entailments of speech and action and demonstrate the centrality of ethical practice, judgment, reasoning, responsibility, cultivation, commitment, and questioning in social life. Rather than focus on codes of conduct or hot-button issues, they make the cumulative argument that ethics is profoundly “ordinary,” pervasive—and possibly even intrinsic to speech and action. In addition to deepening our understanding of ethics, the volume makes an incisive and necessary intervention in anthropological theory, recasting discussion in ways that force us to rethink such concepts as power, agency, and relativism. Individual chapters consider the place of ethics with respect to conversation and interaction; judgment and responsibility; formality, etiquette, performance, ritual, and law; character and empathy; social boundaries and exclusions; socialization and punishment; and commemoration, history, and living together in peace and war. Together they offer a comprehensive portrait of an approach that is now critical for advancing anthropological theory and ethnographic description, as well as fruitful conversation with philosophy.