The “Escape” Behavior and Strategy of Married Lahu Women in Southwest China

2021 ◽  
pp. 036319902110423
Author(s):  
Yang Gao

In the last several years, marriage and family patterns among the Kucong Lahu of Jinping County, Yunnan, have changed significantly due to rapid economic and social changes all over China. Based on ethnographic research in Lu Village, this article explores the current “escape” migration behavior of married Lahu women. They used migration as a strategy to escape patriarchal husbands, families, and local society. This paper describes a paradox between the autonomy of women's individual actions and the inability to escape the system even when on “escapes.” This sort of “escape” strategy cannot ultimately change the gender inequality and social status.

1995 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duane A. Matcha

This research is a content analysis of obituary notices gathered over a one-year period of time from a newspaper in a micropolitan area in northwest Ohio. Obituary collection was limited to those aged 65 and over at the time of death and who resided in the region. The purpose of the research is to examine marital and family patterns such as age at marriage, length of marriage, marital status at time of death, and number of surviving children and their offspring. The data indicate that single women had the highest average age at death while those married at time of death were married earlier, generally died at an older age, and had fewer surviving children and grandchildren when compared with women widowed at time of death. Patterns were less consistent among men. However, men widowed at time of death were generally older at time of death when compared with men married at time of death.


Africa ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kay Williamson

Opening ParagraphIn this paper I shall present some data on the marriage and family organization of an Eastern Ijo town, and shall try to analyse changes in this organization against the background of broader social changes affecting the area.Okrika is the chief town of the Okrika section of the Ijo-speaking people of Nigeria. The Okrika dialect, with Kalahari and Bonny, falls into the North-Eastern group of dialects which are partially interintelligible with Brass-Nembe but not with the Central-Western dialects. The Ijo occupy the greater part of the Niger Delta. The Okrika section consists of eight towns and dependent villages on the extreme eastern edge of the Delta, where the saltwater creeks and mangrove swamps give place to the extensive dry ground of the mainland. Administratively, Okrika forms part of the Degema Province of the Eastern Region of Nigeria. With three other communities of the section, Okrika itself is sited on an island about half a mile long and a quarter broad.


Author(s):  
Angelyna Angelyna ◽  
Franky Liauw

Along with the times, humans gradually growing too. This different time which is the main holder of changes in human nature that unconsciously causing many things, like in social terms. Technology, economy, knowledge, safety, social level, and place become a factor that affect human’s social changes. These social changes can refer to individualistic and do not care about the surrounding environment, so empathy seems to never be heard agin in this era, especially in urban. Empathy includes the ability to feel the emotional statre of others, feel sympathetic and try to slove problems, and take other people’s perspective (Baron & Byrne, 2004),. While the fact from recent studies have shown that empathy in a person is becoming increasingly rare, as many as 65 percent of people do not care or lose empathy (Daily Mail, 2019). Though empathy itself is important according to Graaff et al (2014) where empathy which underlines the importance of ability, behavior and a very important role in the development of moral and prosocial. The reduced level of empathy in urban is a major factor for designers to design a Pegadungan Empathy Development a place that can maintain and develop empathy through the phemomenology approach using human senses, as a training to feel the emotions of others through architectural space, one of them by labyrinth. The method project from Juhani Pallasmaa theories “An Architecture of Seven Sense” and “The Eyes of The Skin: Architecture and Sense” and through data collection from DKI Jakarta BPS, scientific journals, e-books, survey, interview and questionnaires, and local society needs analysis. With this, this project expected that empathy can be felt and maintained at any time, with a design in accordance with the characteristic of empathy.Keywords:  empathy; labyrinth; Pegadungan; phenomenology; sense AbstrakSeiring perkembangan zaman, manusia semakin berkembang pula. Perubahan sifat manusia menjadi pemegang kunci utama yang tanpa disadari menimbulkan salah satunya dalam hal sosial. Teknologi, ekonomi, pengetahuan, keamanan, tingkat sosial, dan tempat menjadi faktor yang mempengaruhi perubahan sosial manusia. Perubahan sosial tersebut seperti manusia yang individualis dan tidak peduli terhadap lingkungan sekitar, sehingga kata empati seakan tidak ada saat ini, terutama di daerah perkotaan. Empati termasuk kemampuan untuk merasakan keadaan emosional orang lain, merasa simpatik dan mencoba menyelesaikan masalah, dan mengambil perspektif orang lain (Baron & Byrne, 2004). Faktanya, studi terbaru menunjukan rasa empati dalam diri seseorang semakin langka, sebanyak 65% orang bersikap tidak peduli atau kehilangan empati (Daily mail, 2019). Padahal empati merupakan hal penting menurut Graaff dkk, (2014), empatilah yang menggaris bawahi pentingnya kemampuan, tingkah laku dan sebuah peran yang sangat penting dalam pengembangan moral dan perilaku prososial. Menurutnya tingkat empati masyarakat di kota besar menjadi faktor utama bagi perancang untuk merancang sebuah Wadah Pengembangan Empati Pegadungan yang dapat menjaga maupun mengembangkan rasa empati tersebut melalui pendekatan fenomenologi indera manusia, sebagai wadah pelatihan untuk merasakan emosi sesama melalui ruang arsitektur, salah satunya pada labirin. Proyek ini menggunakan metode dari teori Juhani Pallasmaa “An architecture of seven sense” dan “The eyes of the skin: architecture and sense” dan melalui pengumpulan data dari BPS DKI Jakarta, jurnal ilmiah, e-book, survei, wawancara dan kuisioner, serta analisis kebutuhan masyarakat sekitar. Dengan ini diharapkan rasa empati tetap terasa dan terjaga sampai kapanpun, dengan desain sesuai dengan karakteristik empati.


2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 595 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma McGuirk

Abstract A movement is gaining traction in New Zealand around timebanks, networks of support in which members exchange favors such as gardening, lifts to the supermarket, pet care, language lessons, career advice, or smartphone tutorials. An online currency is used to track these exchanges, with one hour of work earning one time credit. While each transaction may seem commonplace, when timebanks flourish they work to reshape motivations and opportunities for engaging in labor, and relocalize networks of solidarity, friendship, and resources. Participants reported examples of developing unexpected friendships and renewed enthusiasm for a larger collective project of building alternatives to the currently dominant growth-addicted economic model. These processes contribute to the establishment of foundational, mostly small-scale networks that are enjoyable to use in the here and now, while also creating the potential for these systems to be scaled up or linked together in response to greater economic, ecological, and social changes. Timebank developers in New Zealand are negotiating several structural challenges in their attempts to bring these networks to fruition. This article shares results of ethnographic research amongst seven North Island timebanks, and offers suggestions for future research in this area. Keywords: timebank, community currency, activism, degrowth, New Zealand


2021 ◽  
pp. 123-139
Author(s):  
Gideon Fujiwara

This chapter explores the dynamics between ethnographic research and kokugaku since the late eighteenth century. It discusses Hirao Rosen's work in documenting folk life and culture across both Tsugaru and Ezo as ethnographic studies, then focuses on Rosen's three major works from 1855 to 1865: Strange Tales of Gappo, Echoes of the Valley, and New Treatise on the Spirit Realm. In these intellectual works, Rosen sought verification of the meaning of such phenomena in the ancient texts of China and Japan. The chapter also analyses the interplay between Tsugaru and Imperial Japan that culminates with Rosen's full engagement with Hirata kokugaku, following his enrollment as an official Hirata disciple. Ultimately, the chapter recounts Rosen's strange, mysterious, and spiritual matters in local society, and how he utilized the Hirata kokugaku teachings to thrust Tsugaru into the larger spiritual landscape of Imperial Japan.


2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Slagle

AbstractBased on ethnographic research conducted in Pittsburgh, this article examines the experiences of American-born intermarriage converts to Eastern Orthodoxy. Long characterized as a variety of Christianity fundamentally ethnic in its orientation and insular in its relationships to American religious and cultural mainstreams, Eastern Orthodoxy has attracted increasing numbers of American-born converts over the last thirty years. While the motives and perspectives of more overtly theologically driven conversions have garnered attention, intermarriage conversions are often dismissed as the natural outcomes of entering into marriage and family life. Significantly, intermarriage converts frequently stress their decisions to enter the Orthodox church as autonomously made apart from external influences.By gauging the ways intermarriage converts are depicted in parish life as well as the motives and perspectives they themselves convey in interviews, I argue that the language and assumptions of the American spiritual marketplace profoundly influence Orthodox Christian understandings of family and religion today. Personal choice and individualism rather than the expectations of traditionally ascribed identities have come to be highly valued and valorized means of counting Orthodox identity in the United States. Yet, the prevalence of marketplace values does not diminish the emotional and social impacts of family and community for intermarriage converts. Rather, I observed a general elevation in the importance of both and a frequent substantiation of their roles as the transmitters of shared values among these individuals. Thus, this article provides a case study of how individual and familial concerns further religious choice-making.


2021 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-224
Author(s):  
Tommaso Trevisani

Abstract This paper addresses how changing patterns of conjugality, family and labour play out in a gender-mixed, multi-ethnic industrial setting built in Soviet times and nowadays owned by foreign corporate capital. Matrimonial relationships among Kazakhstani steel workers have come under sustained pressure as a consequence of privatization and labour restructuring. As a result, workers must accommodate their family lives and partnership prospects to their own precarious situation in an increasingly adverse world of industrial labour. Kazakh, Russian, male, female, precarious and regular workers are differently affected and adopt different strategies. Mirroring workplace related inequalities, marriage and family patterns rooted in distinctive traditions in multi-ethnic Kazakhstan are currently being reshaped. At the same time, marriage and family have become more important in determining workers’ wellbeing at work and beyond.


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