David K Jordan

Datos Biográficos

ID76900
NOMBREDavid K Jordan
NOMBRESDavid K
APELLIDOJordan
FIRMAJORDAN D K
AFILIACIONESUniversity of California San Diego
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS45
TOTAL DE CITAS52
TOTAL COMO AUTOR44
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1951
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2023
ÍNDICE H4

  • The Glyphomancy Factor

    David K JordanCHAPTERConversion to Christianity2023

  • Changes in Postwar Taiwan and Their Impact on the Popular Practice of Religion

    David K JordanCHAPTERCultural change in postwar Taiwan2019

    This chapter discusses post-war changes in traditional religious practices in Taiwan, seen as responses to other changes ongoing in Taiwan society. It suggests that four major transformations in Taiwan society since 1945: increasing wealth, specific differences in government policy from previous periods, increasing education, and increasing mobility. Central to the relation of money to religion is, of course, the financial state of religious inst…

  • The Minor Arts of Daily Life

    David K Jordan, Andrew D Morris et al.BOOKMinor Arts of Daily Life2017

    The Minor Arts of Daily Life is an account of the many ways in which contemporary Taiwanese approach their ordinary existence and activities. It presents a wide range of aspects of day-to-day living to convey something of the world as experienced by the Taiwanese themselves.Contributors: Alice Chu, Chien-Juh Gu, David K. Jordan, Paul R. Katz, Chin-Ju Lin, Andrew D. Morris, Marc L. Moskowitz, Scott Simon, Shuenn-Der Yu

  • Personality and the Cultural Construction of Society

    David K Jordan, Marc J SwartzBOOKPersonality and the Cultural…2010

  • Globalisation and bird's nest soup

    David K Jordan, David JordanARTICLEInternational Development…2004Citada por: 4

    Almost unnoticed by outsiders, an extraordinary industry has emerged in Indonesia to meet a specialised demand from the nouveau riche of the People's Republic of China (PRC). This industry produces the prime ingredient of 'bird's nest soup', also used in traditional Chinese medicines and cosmetics. It is an urban industry, using substantial specially designed buildings, that has transformed a number of Indonesian towns. So far there has been litt…

  • Languages left behind

    David K JordanARTICLELanguage Problems & Language…2002Citada por: 2

    The Unicode standard is an enormous step toward realizing the goal of a single computer encoding scheme for virtually all of the world’s scripts. Although not all computers will necessarily have the type fonts to print all characters, at least all computers will be able to recognize what characters are required for proper display of text in almost any language. However the Unicode standard presupposes that each language has a script consisting of…

  • Crazy Ji

    David K Jordan, Meir ShaharARTICLEHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies2000

  • An Address to a Ghost at Olbia

    David K Jordan, David P Jordan et al.ARTICLEMnemosyne1997

  • Obstetric implications of neanderthal robusticity and bone density

    Open AccessNancylee J Friedlander, David K JordanARTICLEHuman Evolution1994Citada por: 1Referencias: 12

  • The Rise of a Refugee God

    David K Jordan, Graeme Lang et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1994

  • CHAPTER TEN. The Glyphomancy Factor

    David K JordanCHAPTERConversion to Christianity1993

  • Personality and the Cultural Construction of Society

    J Peacock, David K Jordan et al.ARTICLEAnthropological Quarterly1992

    A collection of 16 essays, this book examines the theories of Melford E.Spiro and considers various questions, including whether a social act can have functions and what sort of relationship exists between religion and personality

  • Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China

    David K Jordan, James L Watson et al.ARTICLEMan1992

  • The Flying Phoenix

    Michael Saso, David K Jordan et al.ARTICLEBuddhist-Christian Studies1989

  • The Flying Phoenix

    Judith Magee Boltz, David K Jordan et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1989

    Anthropologist David Jordan and Daniel Overmyer, a historian of religions, present a joint analysis of the most important group of sectarian religious societies in contemporary Taiwan: those that engage in automatic writing seances, or worship by means of the phoenix writing implement.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the …

  • Esperanto

    David K JordanARTICLEHumor - International Journal of…1988

  • Social/Cultural Anthropology

    Open AccessDavid K JordanARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1988

  • Response to Murray and Hong

    Open AccessDavid K JordanARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1988Referencias: 1

  • The Flying Phoenix

    Myron L Cohen, David K Jordan et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1988

  • Esperanto and Esperantism

    David K JordanARTICLELanguage Problems & Language…1987Citada por: 4

    Esperanto y esperantismo: Simbolo y motivatión en el mouimiento por la equidad lingüistica Una manera de lograr un mayor grado de equidad linguistica es el uso de una lengua auxiliar internacional creada con tal fin. El esperanto es la lengua artificial internacional más evidente. Sólo el esperanto, a diferencia de cientos de esquemas, ha devenido en lengua de una comunidad hablante significativa. ?Por qué? En sus inicios el esperanto estuvo prot…

  • Social/Cultural Anthropology

    Open AccessDavid K JordanARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1987

  • Society for Cultural Anthropology

    Open AccessDavid K Jordan, David JordanARTICLEAnthropology News1987

  • The Flying Phoenix

    Stephan Feuchtwang, David K Jordan et al.ARTICLEMan1987Citada por: 2

  • The Flying Phoenix

    David K Jordan, Daniel L OvermyerBOOKFlying Phoenix1986

    Anthropologist David Jordan and Daniel Overmyer, a historian of religions, present a joint analysis of the most important group of sectarian religious societies in contemporary Taiwan: those that engage in automatic writing seances, or worship by means of the phoenix" writing implement. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from t…

  • Taiwan's Romanized Script for Mandarin Chinese

    David K JordanARTICLELanguage Problems & Language…1985

    Novan sistemon por reprezenti la cinan (mandarenan) lingvon per latinaj literoj anoncis la Ministerio pri Edukado de la Respubliko de Cinio (Tajvano) en majo 1984. La piano restos "provizora" dum unu jaro por permesi publikan diskutadon. La celo estas anstataûi la de 1928 gis nun oficialan sed efektive neuzatan sistemon "Gwoyeu Romatzyh," kiu reprezentas diferencojn de tonalteco per malsamaj literumadoj (ekz., la unua silabo de "Gwoyeu Romatzyh" …