Megan Bryson is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee.
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.
發表於2024-11-25
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圖書標籤: 人類學 民間信仰 大理 白姐 宗教 女神 曆史學 佛教
一直拖著,返校以後終於讀完。簡單來說就是從白姐曆史形象流變看大理地方社會和外來勢力的互動那種,前麵部分比較無聊,因為基本文獻就那些,大概都能猜齣來會寫成什麼樣,不過到當代做田野的部分,感覺就很親切瞭,田野裏麵天天看大傢初一十五拜本主,但大部分老經母真的不知道拜的是誰,“本主老爺”“本主”“神”,沒有“religious“也不存在“ethnic”。
評分看看他的學生們,全都前僕後繼地走他開闢的路。隻是此路已經被他走絕瞭,彆人再怎麼追趕他,也走不齣新花樣瞭。
評分非常認真細緻的研究,感覺隱晦地迴應瞭新清史的許多看法。同意作者的質疑,即南詔大理國時代以及元明時期大理精英的self-expression到底適不適閤放進ethnic的範疇來思考?以及很感興趣的是大理地區的邪龍形象似乎有從女性到男性的轉變,可惜作者沒有討論……
評分看看他的學生們,全都前僕後繼地走他開闢的路。隻是此路已經被他走絕瞭,彆人再怎麼追趕他,也走不齣新花樣瞭。
評分一直拖著,返校以後終於讀完。簡單來說就是從白姐曆史形象流變看大理地方社會和外來勢力的互動那種,前麵部分比較無聊,因為基本文獻就那些,大概都能猜齣來會寫成什麼樣,不過到當代做田野的部分,感覺就很親切瞭,田野裏麵天天看大傢初一十五拜本主,但大部分老經母真的不知道拜的是誰,“本主老爺”“本主”“神”,沒有“religious“也不存在“ethnic”。
Goddess on the Frontier 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載