Eugene Cooper
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eugene Cooper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eugene |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooper |
| SIGNATURE | COOPER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern California University for Professional Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Chinese minstrelsy: The popular cultural performance art of Jinhua Daoqing
This article first describes the distinctive characteristics of Jinhua Daoqing, a shuo-chang (speak-sing) genre, traditionally performed by blind male practitioners (with yugu drum and clappers) on urban streets and in teahouses, in village squares and at temple fairs, weaving together traditional folk tales and stories, with commentary on more recent and local events. As a result, Daoqing was often called ‘Singing the News’ (chang xinwen), a kin…
The Annual Round of Agricultural Tasks in Dongyang County: Synoptic Illusion or Symbolic Capital
The A. examines the annual round of agricultural tasks in Dongyang County, Zhejiang Province, as synopsized by rural farmers in the twenty-four solar terms jieqi. Such an examination inevitably entails a review of Chinese concepts of time, which in turn provides an occasion to respond to the claim that while anthropologists have documented the relativity of concepts of time in different cultures... they have been less assiduous about observing a …
The Artisans and Entrepreneurs of Dongyang County: Economic Reform and Flexible Production in China
This book brings together historians, geographers, political scientists, and legal scholars to examine each of China's twenty land or sea borders
Meanings of Work: Considerations for the Twenty‐First Century . Frederick C. Gamst, ed
Reply to David Schneider on «cousin marriage in rural China
Patterns of Cousin Marriage in Rural Zhejiang and in Dream of the Red Chamber
Dream of the red chamber has been analyzed and reanalyzed by thousands of Chinese commentators in the more than two centuries since it was written (e.g., Yu 1923; Hu 1940; Zhou 1953; He 1956; Liu 1956; Jiang 1959; Wu 1961; Wang 1983). Indeed, entire journals are devoted exclusively to the novel's analysis, and strictly original contributions to this vast literature are rare. However, Meng Zhang's comparison of the genealogical relations of the pr…
Cousin marriage in rural China: More and Less Than Generalized Exchange
An examination of the custom of cousin marriage in Dongyang County in the late premodern and modern period suggests a critique of Lévi-Strauss's formulations regarding generalized exchange in China. While the analysis takes account of Bourdieu's critique of structuralism (1977), it stops short of dispensing altogether with the notion of elementary structure. The article rather proposes a model of Chinese kinship in which protein chains of structu…
The Ethnography of Contemporary China: First Fruits Agents and Victims in South China: Accomplices in Rural Revolution. Helen F. Siu China's Peasants: The Anthropology of a Revolution. Sulamith Heins …
Daughters of the Canton Delta: Marriage Patterns and Economic Strategies in South China, 1860–1930. Janice E. STOCKARD
Wither women and work
Afshar, Haleh, ed. Women, Work, and Ideology in the Third World. New York: Tavistock Publications, 1985. xvii + 265 pp. including indices and chapter notes and references. $15.95 cloth. Larwood, Laurie, Ann H. Stromberg, and Barbara A. Gutek, eds. Women and Work: An Annual Review, Vol. 1. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1985. 312 pp. including chapter references. $29.95 cloth. Long, Norman, ed. Family and Work in Rural Societies: Perspectives o…
Anthropology and History in Recent Studies of China. A Review Article
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Women in Rural China: Policy Towards Women Before and After the Cultural Revolution
Chinese Table Manners: You Are How You Eat
Communication of Part Two: "The Culture of Craft Production in the People's Republic of China"
Darwinian Selection, Symbolic Variation, and the Evolution of Culture [and Comments and Reply]
Most contemporary models of cultural change are derived from pre-Darwinian, especially Spencerian, sources and are conditioned by such unstated assumptions as typological thinking and a belief in directed, adaptive variation. This paper defends a Darwinian selectionist approach to cultural evolution. Darwinian selectionism requires undirected, heritable variation. Selection acts upon variants that are not preferentially oriented to or generated w…
Chinese in the Post-Civil War South: A History
Art, Myth and Ritual: The Path to Political Authority in Ancient China
The Culture of Craft Production in the People's Republic of China
Mode of Production and Anthropology of Work
The concept of mode of production may be applied to the broad range of societies encompassed by an anthropology of work. This paper examines the ways in which the concept has been revised in its application to work and work-related phenomena in precapitalist society, provides examples from the author's own use of the idea in analyzing data from contemporary incipient capitalist and capitalist work settings, and suggests the concept's adaptability…
From Craft to Industry: The Ethnography of Proto-Industrial Cloth Production
Still More on The Anthropology of Taiwanese Society: A Reply to Susan Greenhalgh
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Ten-Section Systems, Omaha Kinship, and Dispersed Alliance Among the Ancient Chinese [and Comments and Reply]
This paper attempts to establish a structural relationship between the kinship regimes of the Shang (1766-1122 B.C.) and Eastern Chou (770-221 B.C.) dynasties of ancient China as they have been described in the works of P. H. Liu and Y. F. Ruey respectively. At present, the findings of Liu and Ruey stand as isolated analyses of the kinship regimes of two dynasties separated in time by some 500-600 years. Recognition of the structural relation bet…
Introductory essay to symposium on modes of production and social formations in Asian Societies
The Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars and the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars have always attempted to provide alternatives to “established” scholarship in the Asian studies field. When CCAS came into existence in the mid-1960s, the main task was to formulate a critique of the cold war inspired scholarship of the 1950s, and to attempt to counteract the prevailing views concerning the communist countries and national liberation movements …
Karl Marx's other Island: The evolution of peripheral capitalism in Hong Kong
In a 1966 article, written for the Institute of Economic Affairs in Great Britain, entitled “John Stuart Mill's Other Island,” Henry Smith argues that the Hong Kong economy, insofar as it couples virtually total freedom of enterprise and commerce with virtually total state ownership and control of land, epitomizes John Stuart Mills' prescriptions for economic well-being. For Mill, where an element such as land confers income on its owner without …
The Potlatch in Ancient China: Parallels in the Sociopolitical Structure of the Ancient Chinese and the American Indians of the Northwest Coast
Darwinian Selection, Symbolic Variation, and the Evolution of Culture [and Comments and Reply]
Most contemporary models of cultural change are derived from pre-Darwinian, especially Spencerian, sources and are conditioned by such unstated assumptions as typological thinking and a belief in directed, adaptive variation. This paper defends a Darwinian selectionist approach to cultural evolution. Darwinian selectionism requires undirected, heritable variation. Selection acts upon variants that are not preferentially oriented to or generated w…
From Craft to Industry: The Ethnography of Proto-Industrial Cloth Production
Evolutionary Epistemology and Human Values [and Comments and Reply]
The theory of evolution is a body of concepts and relations that applies to social and cultural phenomena as well as to biological ones. The fundamental ideas of the theory-taxonomy, developmental relations, processes of change, and directionality-are shown to apply to human society and culture. Next it is argued that an evolutionary approach implies that the tension between "value-free" and value-biased research is essential to adaptation. Final…
Ten-Section Systems, Omaha Kinship, and Dispersed Alliance Among the Ancient Chinese [and Comments and Reply]
This paper attempts to establish a structural relationship between the kinship regimes of the Shang (1766-1122 B.C.) and Eastern Chou (770-221 B.C.) dynasties of ancient China as they have been described in the works of P. H. Liu and Y. F. Ruey respectively. At present, the findings of Liu and Ruey stand as isolated analyses of the kinship regimes of two dynasties separated in time by some 500-600 years. Recognition of the structural relation bet…
Chinese Table Manners: You Are How You Eat
Asymmetrical Reciprocity: A Contribution to the Theory of Political Legitimacy [and Comments and Reply]
This is an essay on political legitimacy and the ideas, here called "political ideology," that sustain legitimacy. Following Weber and Durkheim, I discuss the viability and effectiveness of ideology and related matters. Such considerations suggest a useful definition of political legitimacy. Our concern here is with two related forms of ideology, both variants on "asymmetrical reciprocity," both institutionalized deviations from a panhuman predis…
Economic Man in Sha Tin, Vegetable Gardeners in a Hong Kong Valley
Patterns of Cousin Marriage in Rural Zhejiang and in Dream of the Red Chamber
Dream of the red chamber has been analyzed and reanalyzed by thousands of Chinese commentators in the more than two centuries since it was written (e.g., Yu 1923; Hu 1940; Zhou 1953; He 1956; Liu 1956; Jiang 1959; Wu 1961; Wang 1983). Indeed, entire journals are devoted exclusively to the novel's analysis, and strictly original contributions to this vast literature are rare. However, Meng Zhang's comparison of the genealogical relations of the pr…
The Potlatch in Ancient China: Parallels in the Sociopolitical Structure of the Ancient Chinese and the American Indians of the Northwest Coast
Our Obsolete Production Mentality: The Heresy of the Communal Formation [and Comments and Reply]
Nonmaterial aspects of social practices such as symbolic exchange, modes of destruction of wealth-in short, the broad field of "antieconomic" activities-have not been fully examined by economic anthropology. This articles is sort of challenge to carry out this examination. In the first part of the study, problems related to the "utilitarian approach," taken in a broad sense, are discussed. The following section explores the concept of the communa…
Cousin marriage in rural China: More and Less Than Generalized Exchange
An examination of the custom of cousin marriage in Dongyang County in the late premodern and modern period suggests a critique of Lévi-Strauss's formulations regarding generalized exchange in China. While the analysis takes account of Bourdieu's critique of structuralism (1977), it stops short of dispensing altogether with the notion of elementary structure. The article rather proposes a model of Chinese kinship in which protein chains of structu…
Art, Myth and Ritual: The Path to Political Authority in Ancient China
Mode of Production and Anthropology of Work
The concept of mode of production may be applied to the broad range of societies encompassed by an anthropology of work. This paper examines the ways in which the concept has been revised in its application to work and work-related phenomena in precapitalist society, provides examples from the author's own use of the idea in analyzing data from contemporary incipient capitalist and capitalist work settings, and suggests the concept's adaptability…
Women in Rural China: Policy Towards Women Before and After the Cultural Revolution
Our Obsolete Production Mentality: The Heresy of the Communal Formation [and Comments and Reply]
Nonmaterial aspects of social practices such as symbolic exchange, modes of destruction of wealth-in short, the broad field of "antieconomic" activities-have not been fully examined by economic anthropology. This articles is sort of challenge to carry out this examination. In the first part of the study, problems related to the "utilitarian approach," taken in a broad sense, are discussed. The following section explores the concept of the communa…
Asymmetrical Reciprocity: A Contribution to the Theory of Political Legitimacy [and Comments and Reply]
This is an essay on political legitimacy and the ideas, here called "political ideology," that sustain legitimacy. Following Weber and Durkheim, I discuss the viability and effectiveness of ideology and related matters. Such considerations suggest a useful definition of political legitimacy. Our concern here is with two related forms of ideology, both variants on "asymmetrical reciprocity," both institutionalized deviations from a panhuman predis…
Evolutionary Epistemology and Human Values [and Comments and Reply]
The theory of evolution is a body of concepts and relations that applies to social and cultural phenomena as well as to biological ones. The fundamental ideas of the theory-taxonomy, developmental relations, processes of change, and directionality-are shown to apply to human society and culture. Next it is argued that an evolutionary approach implies that the tension between "value-free" and value-biased research is essential to adaptation. Final…
The Wood-Carvers of Hong Kong. Craft Production in the World Capitalist Periphery
Introductory essay to symposium on modes of production and social formations in Asian Societies
The Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars and the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars have always attempted to provide alternatives to “established” scholarship in the Asian studies field. When CCAS came into existence in the mid-1960s, the main task was to formulate a critique of the cold war inspired scholarship of the 1950s, and to attempt to counteract the prevailing views concerning the communist countries and national liberation movements …
Karl Marx's other Island: The evolution of peripheral capitalism in Hong Kong
In a 1966 article, written for the Institute of Economic Affairs in Great Britain, entitled “John Stuart Mill's Other Island,” Henry Smith argues that the Hong Kong economy, insofar as it couples virtually total freedom of enterprise and commerce with virtually total state ownership and control of land, epitomizes John Stuart Mills' prescriptions for economic well-being. For Mill, where an element such as land confers income on its owner without …
The Potlatch in Ancient China: Parallels in the Sociopolitical Structure of the Ancient Chinese and the American Indians of the Northwest Coast
Economic Man in Sha Tin, Vegetable Gardeners in a Hong Kong Valley
The Wood-Carvers of Hong Kong: Craft Production in the World Capitalist Periphery
Still More on The Anthropology of Taiwanese Society: A Reply to Susan Greenhalgh
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Ten-Section Systems, Omaha Kinship, and Dispersed Alliance Among the Ancient Chinese [and Comments and Reply]
This paper attempts to establish a structural relationship between the kinship regimes of the Shang (1766-1122 B.C.) and Eastern Chou (770-221 B.C.) dynasties of ancient China as they have been described in the works of P. H. Liu and Y. F. Ruey respectively. At present, the findings of Liu and Ruey stand as isolated analyses of the kinship regimes of two dynasties separated in time by some 500-600 years. Recognition of the structural relation bet…
Mode of Production and Anthropology of Work
The concept of mode of production may be applied to the broad range of societies encompassed by an anthropology of work. This paper examines the ways in which the concept has been revised in its application to work and work-related phenomena in precapitalist society, provides examples from the author's own use of the idea in analyzing data from contemporary incipient capitalist and capitalist work settings, and suggests the concept's adaptability…
From Craft to Industry: The Ethnography of Proto-Industrial Cloth Production
Communication of Part Two: "The Culture of Craft Production in the People's Republic of China"
Darwinian Selection, Symbolic Variation, and the Evolution of Culture [and Comments and Reply]
Most contemporary models of cultural change are derived from pre-Darwinian, especially Spencerian, sources and are conditioned by such unstated assumptions as typological thinking and a belief in directed, adaptive variation. This paper defends a Darwinian selectionist approach to cultural evolution. Darwinian selectionism requires undirected, heritable variation. Selection acts upon variants that are not preferentially oriented to or generated w…
Chinese in the Post-Civil War South: A History
Art, Myth and Ritual: The Path to Political Authority in Ancient China
The Culture of Craft Production in the People's Republic of China
Women in Rural China: Policy Towards Women Before and After the Cultural Revolution
Chinese Table Manners: You Are How You Eat
Anthropology and History in Recent Studies of China. A Review Article
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Ethnography of Contemporary China: First Fruits Agents and Victims in South China: Accomplices in Rural Revolution. Helen F. Siu China's Peasants: The Anthropology of a Revolution. Sulamith Heins …
Daughters of the Canton Delta: Marriage Patterns and Economic Strategies in South China, 1860–1930. Janice E. STOCKARD
Wither women and work
Afshar, Haleh, ed. Women, Work, and Ideology in the Third World. New York: Tavistock Publications, 1985. xvii + 265 pp. including indices and chapter notes and references. $15.95 cloth. Larwood, Laurie, Ann H. Stromberg, and Barbara A. Gutek, eds. Women and Work: An Annual Review, Vol. 1. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1985. 312 pp. including chapter references. $29.95 cloth. Long, Norman, ed. Family and Work in Rural Societies: Perspectives o…
Patterns of Cousin Marriage in Rural Zhejiang and in Dream of the Red Chamber
Dream of the red chamber has been analyzed and reanalyzed by thousands of Chinese commentators in the more than two centuries since it was written (e.g., Yu 1923; Hu 1940; Zhou 1953; He 1956; Liu 1956; Jiang 1959; Wu 1961; Wang 1983). Indeed, entire journals are devoted exclusively to the novel's analysis, and strictly original contributions to this vast literature are rare. However, Meng Zhang's comparison of the genealogical relations of the pr…
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