The Flow of Gifts

Yunxiang Yan is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Policy and Social Development, Fudan University, China. He is the author of Te Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village (Stanford University Press, 1996), Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949–1999 (Stanford University Press, 2003) and The Individualization of Chinese Society (Berg, 2009). His research interests include family and kinship, social change, the individual and individualization, and moral changes in post-Mao China.

出版者:Stanford University Press

作者:Yunxiang Yan

页数:278

出版时间:1996-5

价格:USD 22.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780804726955

图书标签:人类学Anthropology闫云翔社会学海外中国研究经典海外中国研究Anthropology(EN)耶鲁大学博士论文

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Gift-giving is a classic topic in anthropology, where on-going debates involve the principle of reciprocity, the spirit of the gift, and the relationship between gifts and commodities. In this study, the author examines the gift-giving and related social activities that pervade daily life in China, focusing on routine activities - visits between relatives, exchanges of food and labour between neighbours, gift-giving between friends - while not ignoring such special occasions as weddings and funerals. He constructs a classification of exchange behaviour in village society, examining the items of presentation, the types of gift-giving activities, and the hierarchical arrangement of givers and receivers. He also presents new interpretations of key concepts involved in Chinese gift-giving: guanxi (social networks), renqing (norms of interpersonal behaviour), mianzi (face), and bao (reciprocity). The book concludes by showing how the village gift economy has adjusted and survived in response to the radical social changes engendered by four decades of socialism.

读后感

礼物是什么 礼物，是人们之间交流感情的重要媒介。例如为了表达友情、爱情、亲情，是人情礼物；为了委托别人办事，是关系礼物；也可以是表达一种仪式感、礼仪感，是场合礼物。 一、送礼的分类 本书一开始，是为了完成博士论文的目的，而且是用英文完成，因此一般的读者可能不好...  

“一个奇怪的乱”用礼物的交换来理解南北方人的差异本人不能同意，首先，”南方人精于算计，北方人重义气“，这个前提就有问题，什么标准是义气，什么标准是算计，如果说讲关系聚山头算义气的话，南方人并不差，另外，这个问题本身就是一种带有"刻板模式"（stereotype）...  

用户评价

1993 Yan Yunxiang 在哈佛做的博士论文。

关系的礼物运作

回過頭來重新讀英文版，出乎意料地清晰明了，始終放在一個學術的脈絡下進行對話，非常扎實。頁35中的urban resident（城鎮居民）拼音應該是 chengzhen jumin，書中為「zhumin」，書最後character list中的倒是對的。

关系的礼物运作

关系的礼物运作