Megan Bryson is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee.
发表于2024-12-23
Goddess on the Frontier 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 人类学 民间信仰 大理 白姐 宗教 女神 历史学 佛教
Dali is a small region on a high plateau in Southeast Asia. Its main deity, Baijie, has assumed several gendered forms throughout the area's history: Buddhist goddess, the mother of Dali's founder, a widowed martyr, and a village divinity. What accounts for so many different incarnations of a local deity?
Goddess on the Frontier argues that Dali's encounters with forces beyond region and nation have influenced the goddess's transformations. Dali sits at the cultural crossroads of Southeast Asia, India, and Tibet; it has been claimed by different countries but is currently part of Yunnan Province in Southwest China. Megan Bryson incorporates historical-textual studies, art history, and ethnography in her book to argue that Baijie provided a regional identity that enabled Dali to position itself geopolitically and historically. In doing so, Bryson provides a case study of how people craft local identities out of disparate cultural elements and how these local identities transform over time in relation to larger historical changes—including the increasing presence of the Chinese state.
非常认真细致的研究,感觉隐晦地回应了新清史的许多看法。同意作者的质疑,即南诏大理国时代以及元明时期大理精英的self-expression到底适不适合放进ethnic的范畴来思考?以及很感兴趣的是大理地区的邪龙形象似乎有从女性到男性的转变,可惜作者没有讨论……
评分看看他的学生们,全都前仆后继地走他开辟的路。只是此路已经被他走绝了,别人再怎么追赶他,也走不出新花样了。
评分看看他的学生们,全都前仆后继地走他开辟的路。只是此路已经被他走绝了,别人再怎么追赶他,也走不出新花样了。
评分作者的人类学和宗教学基础都不错,关键在一个更广阔的层面上来探讨有关问题,眼界和观点就不一样了。前面看过白美安的几篇论文,国产学者的那些东西不得不提,但对没凭据自己扯一套的“创见”不无隐隐的嘲讽。希望她研究大理佛教的书尽快出版。
评分作者的人类学和宗教学基础都不错,关键在一个更广阔的层面上来探讨有关问题,眼界和观点就不一样了。前面看过白美安的几篇论文,国产学者的那些东西不得不提,但对没凭据自己扯一套的“创见”不无隐隐的嘲讽。希望她研究大理佛教的书尽快出版。
Goddess on the Frontier 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书