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Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore: Gender, Religion, Medicine and Money

Marjorie Topley and Jean DeBernardi

Abstract

This volume contains published articles by the author, who was a pioneer in the field of social anthropology in the post-war period and also the first president of the revived Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Her ethnographic research in Singapore and Hong Kong set a high standard for urban anthropology, and helped create the fields of migration studies, gender studies, and medical anthropology.

Keywords: social anthropology, urban anthropology, ethnographic research, Singapore, Hong Kong, migration, gender, medical anthropology

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2011 Print ISBN-13: 9789888028146
Published to Hong Kong Scholarship Online: September 2011 DOI:10.5790/hongkong/9789888028146.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Marjorie Topley, author

Jean DeBernardi, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Figures

Charts

Tables

Foreword

Introduction Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore: Gender, Religion, Medicine and Money

Jean DeBernardi1

Part I Chinese Ritual Practice in Singapore

Chapter 1 Some Occasional Rites Performed by the Singapore Cantonese

Marjorie Topley, and Jean DeBernardi

Chapter 2 Chinese Rites for the Repose of the Soul, with Special Reference to Cantonese Custom

Marjorie Topley, and Jean DeBernardi

Chapter 3 Paper Charms, and Prayer Sheets as Adjuncts to Chinese Worship

Marjorie Topley, and Jean DeBernardi

Chapter 4 Ghost Marriages among the Singapore Chinese

Marjorie Topley, and Jean DeBernardi

Chapter 5 Ghost Marriages among the Singapore Chinese: A Further Note

Marjorie Topley, and Jean DeBernardi

Part II Religious Associations in Singapore and China

Chapter 6 Chinese Women’s Vegetarian Houses in Singapore

Marjorie Topley, and Jean DeBernardi

Chapter 7 Chinese Religion and Religious Institutions in Singapore

Marjorie Topley, and Jean DeBernardi

Chapter 8 The Emergence and Social Function of Chinese Religious Associations in Singapore

Marjorie Topley, and Jean DeBernardi

Chapter 9 The Great Way of Former Heaven: A Group of Chinese Secret Religious Sects

Marjorie Topley, and Jean DeBernardi

Chapter 10 Chinese Religion and Rural Cohesion in the Nineteenth Century

Marjorie Topley, and Jean DeBernardi

Part III Economy and Society: Hong Kong and Guangdong

Chapter 11 The Role of Savings and Wealth among Hong Kong Chinese

Marjorie Topley, and Jean DeBernardi

Chapter 12 Capital, Saving and Credit among Indigenous Rice Farmers and Immigrant Vegetable Farmers in Hong Kong’s New Territories

Marjorie Topley, and Jean DeBernardi

Part IV Religion and Society: Hong Kong and Guangdong

Chapter 13 Some Basic Conceptions and Their Traditional Relationship to Society

Marjorie Topley, and Jean DeBernardi

Chapter 14 Chinese Occasional Rites in Hong Kong

Marjorie Topley, and Jean DeBernardi

Chapter 15 Notes on Some Vegetarian Halls in Hong Kong Belonging to the Sect of Hsien-T’ien Tao (The Way of Former Heaven)

Marjorie Topley, and Jean DeBernardi

Chapter 16 Marriage Resistance in Rural Kwangtung

Marjorie Topley, and Jean DeBernardi

Part V Chinese and Western Medicine in Hong Kong

Chapter 17 Chinese Traditional Ideas and the Treatment of Disease: Two Examples from Hong Kong

Marjorie Topley, and Jean DeBernardi

Chapter 18 Cosmic Antagonisms: A Mother-Child Syndrome

Marjorie Topley, and Jean DeBernardi

Chapter 19 Chinese and Western Medicine in Hong Kong: Some Social and Cultural Determinants of Variation, Interaction and Change

Marjorie Topley, and Jean DeBernardi

Chapter 20 Chinese Traditional Aetiology and Methods of Cure in Hong Kong

Marjorie Topley, and Jean DeBernardi

End Matter

Appendix

Index