The Asian Village / / Robert O. Whyte.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: O. Whyte, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [1976]; ©1976
• Year of Publication: 1976
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (77 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF FIGURES --; 1: OBJECTIVE AND SCOPE --; 2: THE SETTING --; 3: DIVERSITY OF MAN --; 4: DISTINCTIONS AND RELATIONS BETWEEN RURAL AND URBAN --; 5: ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF ECOSYSTEMS INVOLVING RURAL MAN --; 6: LOCATION AND MORPHOLOGY OF VILLAGES --; 7: SOCIAL AND AGRARIAN STRUCTURE --; 8: SOCIOLOGY OF LABOUR --; 9 : SOCIOLOGY OF LAND USE --; 10: SOCIOLOGY OF RURAL WATER USE --; 11: FISHING COMMUNITIES --; 12: ECONOMIC STRUCTURE AND STATUS --; 13: HOUSING --; 14 : HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION --; 15: NUTRITION AND FOOD CUSTOMS --; 16: REARING AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN --; 17: RURAL EVOLUTION AT THE PRESENT TIME --; 18: ACCEPTANCE OF CHANGE --; 19: CONCLUSION
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789814377461; 9783110649680; 9783110606690
• DOI: 10.1355/9789814377461
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robert O. Whyte.

An investigation of the potential for rural progress of the Asian village, especially in monsoonal and equatorial areas. Contents include distinctions and relations between rural and urban, origin and evolution of ecosystems involving rural man, location and morphology of villages, social and agrarian patterns, the sociology of labour, land use, rural water use, nutrition, health, childrearing and rural evolution at present. With 20 diagrams.