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Yu-Chien Huang
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Regional focus: Taiwan (Formosan Austronesians), Micronesia, Yap. Topical interests: economic anthropology, kinship studies, hierarchy and equality, personhood, value, money, property. I am interested in how the 'economy' may be culturally conceptualized, specifically in exchange theory and value formation. Ethnographically, I am interested in how 'green money' has become a sign of economic value in Yap society, which is known as the 'island of stone money' since the colonial era. How did the US dollar become indigenously categorized? How are ideas of private ownership and property configured by different understandings of personhood? What is the influence of the introduction of the new nation-state on a former chiefitan society? What are the consequences of egalitarian ideals, especially once it has become institutionalized, in a hierarchical culture? MA, BA, Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University MA Thesis: 2005 'Exchange' and 'Individualism:' A Case Study at Ivalinu, Lanyu (Orchid Island). Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University. (In Chinese) Publication and Presentations:
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