C. Fred Blake is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i.
For a thousand years across the length and breadth of China and beyond, people have burned paper replicas of valuable things—most often money—for the spirits of deceased family members, ancestors, and myriads of demons and divinities. Although frequently denigrated as wasteful and vulgar and at times prohibited by governing elites, today this venerable custom is as popular as ever. Burning Money explores the cultural logic of this common practice while addressing larger anthropological questions concerning the nature of value. The heart of the work integrates Chinese and Western thought and analytics to develop a theoretical framework that the author calls a “materialist aesthetics.” This includes consideration of how the burning of paper money meshes with other customs in China and around the world.
The work examines the custom in contemporary everyday life, its origins in folklore and history, as well as its role in common rituals, in the social formations of dynastic and modern times, and as a “sacrifice” in the act of consecrating the paper money before burning it. Here the author suggests a great divide between the modern means of cultural reproduction through ideology and reification, with its emphasis on nature and realism, and previous pre-capitalist means through ritual and mystification, with its emphasis on authenticity. The final chapters consider how the burning money custom has survived its encounter with the modern global system and internet technology.
Innovative and original in its interpretation of a common ritual in Chinese popular religion, Burning Money will be welcomed by scholars and students of Chinese religion as well as comparative religion specialists and anthropologists interested in contemporary social theory.
發表於2024-05-20
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圖書標籤: 人類學 中國 religion 柏樺 anthropology CULTURE CHINA Anthro_China
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評分錶麵上看來覆蓋較廣的田野實則雜亂,現象學的使用更是生硬。想要用紙錢來構建陰陽兩界的日常生活體係,超齣瞭對象與理論結構本身的可駕馭範圍。
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評分錶麵上看來覆蓋較廣的田野實則雜亂,現象學的使用更是生硬。想要用紙錢來構建陰陽兩界的日常生活體係,超齣瞭對象與理論結構本身的可駕馭範圍。
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