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.
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.
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“一個奇怪的亂”用禮物的交換來理解南北方人的差異本人不能同意,首先,”南方人精於算計,北方人重義氣“,這個前提就有問題,什麼標準是義氣,什麼標準是算計,如果說講關係聚山頭算義氣的話,南方人並不差,另外,這個問題本身就是一種帶有"刻闆模式"(stereotype)...
評分 評分“一個奇怪的亂”用禮物的交換來理解南北方人的差異本人不能同意,首先,”南方人精於算計,北方人重義氣“,這個前提就有問題,什麼標準是義氣,什麼標準是算計,如果說講關係聚山頭算義氣的話,南方人並不差,另外,這個問題本身就是一種帶有"刻闆模式"(stereotype)...
評分????????書中結論篇標題 首先很佩服閻老師能夠把融於日常生活中細碎的禮物交換整理歸納成文,包括瞭重要生命慶典的送禮、過節的禮錢、日常拜訪的小禮等,幾乎涵蓋瞭他那個時代所有的禮物交換,無論是實物還是金錢。 然後他又從社會的各個方麵去分析産生這些禮物交換的原因,人...
評分在《禮物的流動:一個中國村莊中的互惠原則與社會網絡》中,作者提到禮物的饋贈對於維護關係網絡起到至關重要的作用。而關係網絡在傳統中國社會起到如下幾個作用: 1,經濟功能。農業社會中的彼此互相扶助,某些勞動環節需要提高效率以趕天時,這需要關係網絡來支持。...
圖書標籤: 人類學 Anthropology 閆雲翔 社會學 海外中國研究經典 海外中國研究 Anthropology(EN) 耶魯大學博士論文
1993 Yan Yunxiang 在哈佛做的博士論文。
評分關係的禮物運作
評分迴過頭來重新讀英文版,齣乎意料地清晰明瞭,始終放在一個學術的脈絡下進行對話,非常紮實。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。
評分Chapter 8和9值得細讀一番。
評分1993 Yan Yunxiang 在哈佛做的博士論文。
The Flow of Gifts 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載