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"We savages didn't bind feet." The implications of cultural contact and change in southwestern Taiwan for an evolutionary anthropology.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"We savages didn't bind feet." The implications of cultural contact and change in southwestern Taiwan for an evolutionary anthropology./
Author:	Brown, Melissa J.
Description:	547 p.
Notes:	Chairperson: Stevan Harrell.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International57-02A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9616580

"We savages didn't bind feet." The implications of cultural contact and change in southwestern Taiwan for an evolutionary anthropology.
Brown, Melissa J.

"We savages didn't bind feet." The implications of cultural contact and change in southwestern Taiwan for an evolutionary anthropology. - 547 p.

Chairperson: Stevan Harrell.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 1995.

This dissertation contributes to work bridging the polarized perspectives of evolutionists and interpretivists in anthropology. I critically examine the bridging work of Boyd and Richerson (1985) and Durham (1991) and draw four causal mechanisms of human behavior from their work--direct natural selection, indirect natural selection (a form of rational choice decision making), social selection, and cultural selection. I propose a triple inheritance system for humans--genetic, social, and cultural--underlies these mechanisms and evaluate the power of these mechanisms in explaining empirical data.Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

"We savages didn't bind feet." The implications of cultural contact and change in southwestern Taiwan for an evolutionary anthropology.
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520 $a This dissertation contributes to work bridging the polarized perspectives of evolutionists and interpretivists in anthropology. I critically examine the bridging work of Boyd and Richerson (1985) and Durham (1991) and draw four causal mechanisms of human behavior from their work--direct natural selection, indirect natural selection (a form of rational choice decision making), social selection, and cultural selection. I propose a triple inheritance system for humans--genetic, social, and cultural--underlies these mechanisms and evaluate the power of these mechanisms in explaining empirical data.
520 $a The people I worked with in southwestern Taiwan are descendants of Austronesian-speaking peoples who underwent dramatic changes over the last 400 years. By 1991, their ethnic identity was firmly Hokkien (Han) Taiwanese, yet people over sixty remembered when their identity was pejoratively Aborigine or "savage." This identity was closely linked to the Han Chinese custom of footbinding. In spite of long-term intermarriage between Chinese immigrant men and plains Aborigine women, footbinding was not adopted because of a combination of social selection and cultural selection: Though Chinese fathers may have passed a value for footbinding on to their children, they could not transmit the practice itself. Neither they nor their plains Aborigine wives had the cultural knowledge to bind feet (footbinding was done by women in Han society). The ethnic boundary between Hokkien and plains Aborigine was obliterated as an unintended consequence of Japanese colonial imposition (which banned footbinding in 1915) and cultural selection. About 1930, when there were no first-time Hokkien brides with bound feet, there was an increase in virilocal intermarriage between the historically plains Aborigine communities and nearby Hokkien communities. With footbinding removed as a visible marker, local Hokkien were culturally predisposed to intermarry with and grant Hokkien status to former plains Aborigines.
520 $a Each causal mechanism can account for, or at least contribute to the explanation of, multiple empirical changes discussed here, although direct natural selection is the least powerful in explaining cultural and identity changes. These four mechanisms appear to function differently and to interact. However, further research is needed on how individuals mediate between different inheritance system influences in choosing courses of action.
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