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A Localized Culture of Welfare - Entitlements, Stratification, and Identity in a Chinese Lineage Village (Hardcover)
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A Localized Culture of Welfare - Entitlements, Stratification, and Identity in a Chinese Lineage Village (Hardcover)
Series: AsiaWorld
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Hong Kong has undergone rapid and substantial social, economic,
political and demographic changes since the 1970s. This book
examines critically the real impact of these changes on a single
surname village in rural Hong Kong. It draws on anthropological
fieldwork conducted during the late 1990s and the early 2000s. This
ethnographic study demonstrates that kinship, particularly agnatic
kinship, has remained a valuable resource for Pang villagers,
enabling them to acquire key welfare entitlements, and to secure a
good measure of economic and social well-being. Kinship affiliation
has provided and still provides (admittedly differential) access to
political patronage and legal entitlements, financial assistance
and the substantial benefits of corporate property-holding,
physical protection and political leadership, employment,
care-giving and support networks, housing needs, old age security,
a ritually-imagined community, with a sense of spiritual
well-being. Agnatic kinship has been organized as a corporate
institution and as a quasi-religious community through which
substantial support, protection, and privileged access is provided
for villagers. At the same time, reliance on this elaborate
"localized culture of welfare" has maintained or reinforced the
contours of stratification and inequality among Pang villagers,
even as lineage identity has remained largely intact in the face of
changing external circumstances.
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