Maurice Freedman, (born Dec. 11, 1920, London, Eng.—died July 14, 1975, London), British scholar who was one of the world’s leading experts on Chinese anthropology.
After studying English at King’s College, London, and serving in the Royal Artillery in World War II, Freedman enrolled as a graduate student of anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where, after doing fieldwork in Singapore, he was offered a lectureship in anthropology in 1951. He became a professor in 1965. During this tenure, he also held visiting appointments at Yale University, the University of Malaya, and Cornell University. In 1970 he accepted a chair at the University of Oxford, where he remained until his death.
Freedman’s Chinese studies can be classified into four phases. The first phase began with his Singapore research, which resulted in works on the Chinese family and marriage, Chinese law, Chinese religion, and Chinese community organization. The second phase occurred in the early 1950s, when, using only archival sources, Freedman began to reconstruct traditional Chinese society with particular attention to the institutions of kinship and marriage. In the third phase he studied what he referred to as “residual China,” notably Hong Kong and Taiwan. The final phase was the study of the intellectual history of sinological anthropology. In this stage, he chronicled the stories of the early attempts at understanding Chinese society.
Freedman’s literary output was large and varied. Some of Freedman’s works are Chinese Family and Marriage in Singapore (1957), Chinese Lineage and Society (1966), and Main Trends in Social and Cultural Anthropology (1979).
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Lineage organization in southeastern China. 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
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評分《中國東南的宗族組織》一書將關注點放在分布在中國福建、廣東兩個省的宗族組織上,認為宗族組織內部因資源分配的不平均和流動的可能性形成瞭分化。本書也是圍繞著宗族組織這個分化社會中的單係親屬組織和集權政治體係來進行探討。 這種在中國東南部的以父係繼嗣為主的單係親屬...
評分我第一次看到這句話是在錢航先生發錶在《史林》2000年第三期的文章上。錢氏對這句話的翻譯是: "族譜對世係群的發展和結構具有影響,並成為世係群的憲章",原話是"Genealogies on the development and structure of the lineages for which they constituted the charters". 這...
評分我第一次看到這句話是在錢航先生發錶在《史林》2000年第三期的文章上。錢氏對這句話的翻譯是: "族譜對世係群的發展和結構具有影響,並成為世係群的憲章",原話是"Genealogies on the development and structure of the lineages for which they constituted the charters". 這...
評分《中國東南的宗族組織》一書將關注點放在分布在中國福建、廣東兩個省的宗族組織上,認為宗族組織內部因資源分配的不平均和流動的可能性形成瞭分化。本書也是圍繞著宗族組織這個分化社會中的單係親屬組織和集權政治體係來進行探討。 這種在中國東南部的以父係繼嗣為主的單係親屬...
圖書標籤: 人類學 華南 宗族 Lineage_politics 宗族研究 英國 弗裏德曼 學術
沒有田野的人類學研究通過文獻的提煉概括做到這樣既有宏觀架構,又有具體進程的研究,基本上隻能用聰明來解釋瞭。讀罷纔明白Freedman的理論遠比過去聽到的要豐富得多。
評分armchair也是可以的嘛
評分1)頁136,lineages survived as corporate groups. 把宗族看做「控產機構」,這是科大衛老師之前一再強調的Freedman這本書的重點。讀的時候也是似懂非懂,到最後一章似乎纔清晰一點;2)單純依靠有限的二手文獻,就能提煉齣這樣的框架,而且其中涉及到的族譜、宗族、傢族法、訴訟、科舉等,往往都提到關鍵點上瞭,確實牛逼。
評分1)頁136,lineages survived as corporate groups. 把宗族看做「控產機構」,這是科大衛老師之前一再強調的Freedman這本書的重點。讀的時候也是似懂非懂,到最後一章似乎纔清晰一點;2)單純依靠有限的二手文獻,就能提煉齣這樣的框架,而且其中涉及到的族譜、宗族、傢族法、訴訟、科舉等,往往都提到關鍵點上瞭,確實牛逼。
評分armchair也是可以的嘛
Lineage organization in southeastern China. 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載