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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 366, 期 1566, 页码 901-917出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0303
关键词
horizontal cultural transmission; economic index; uxorilocal marriage; virilocal marriage; colonial household registers; cultural change
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- American Council of Learned Societies
- Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation
- Pacific Cultural Foundation
- Institute of Ethnology at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan
- Stanford University
- Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
- Morrison Institute for Population and Resources Studies
- Center for East Asian Studies
- NIH [GM28016]
With introduction of social niche effects into a model of cultural change, the frequency of a practice cannot predict the frequency of its underlying belief. The combination of a general model with empirical data from a specific case illustrates the importance of collaboration between modellers and field researchers, and identifies the type of quantitative data necessary for analysing case studies. Demographic data from colonial-period household registers in Taiwan document a shift in marriage form within 40 years, from a mixture of uxorilocal marriages and virilocal marriages to the latter's dominance. Ethnographic data indicate marriage-related beliefs, costs, ethnic effects and colonial policies as well as the importance of horizontal cultural transmission. We present a formal model for the effects of moral beliefs about marriage and a population economic index on the decline of uxorilocal marriage. We integrate empirical marriage rates and an estimated economic index to produce five projections of the historical frequencies of one belief. These projections demonstrate how economic development may affect a cultural niche. They also indicate the need for future research on the relationship between wealth and cultural variability, the motivational force of cultural versus social factors, and the process of cultural niche construction.
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