Philip Staniford

Pioneers in the Tropics (eBook, ePUB)

The Political Organisation of Japanese in an Immigrant Community in Brazil

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This study of a substantial Japanese immigrant community in Brazil concentrates on its development of a political organization to cope with internal problems of co-operation and conflict and to deal with the outside world of Brazilian politicians and merchants.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000324600
• Artikelnr.: 60770585

Autorenporträt

Dr Staniford is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at San Diego State College, California.

Inhaltsangabe

I. BACKGROUND I Introduction
I Japanese background
5 The Brazilian setting
14 The paths of immigrants
23 2. POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STRUCTURE 28 Political structure
28 Economic structure
40 3. SOCIAL STRUCTURE 54 The household
54 Independent kinsmen and affines
62 Neighbours
63 Aggregates
64 Associations
75 4. DYADIC TIES AND HOUSEHOLD-CENTRED NETWORKS 89 Dyadic ties between households
89 Household-centred networks
103 LEADERSHIP 120 Essential background features
121 Leaders of political support networks
123 Community-wide leaders
126 6. COMMUNITY SOLIDARITY AND THE PRIVATE SALE OF PEPPER 149 The setting in 1957
151 Growth of private pepper buyers
154 Attempts by Co-operative officials to control the flow of members' pepper
163 The situation in 1964-65
167 Discussion
170 7. CONCLUSION 173 Co-operative organization
173 Japanese 'Disposition to Groupness
181 LIST OF WORKS CITED 190 INDEX 197