Contents: 1. Some problems in the study of South Chinese rural life; 2. Mountains and water: The traditional landscape of China and its consequences for the modern world; 3. Changing patterns of land use in rural Hong Kong; 4. Traditional aquaculture in Hong Kong; 5. Some Chinese methods of dealing with crowding; 6. Lineage atrophy in Chinese society; 7. A preliminary note on fictive kinship in Chinese society; 8. The minimax strategy in the South Chinese diet; 9. Cantonese ethnohoptology; 10. Fold medicine in rural Hong Kong; 11. Feng-shui: Ideology and ecololgy; 12. Homage to the locality: Religion in the agricultural landscape; Epilogue: Some tentative and preliminary thoughts on wet rice agriculture in general and on its development.

Mountains and Water: Essays on the Cultural Ecology of South Coastal China

Anderson, E. N.

Orient Cultural Service

1973

2007.066.648