Erik Mueggler is professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. He was a 2002 winner of the MacArthur Foundation Genius award.
发表于2024-12-22
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图书标签: 人类学 Mueggler 中国研究 西南 指路经 穆格勒 文本 历史
n a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer them a sense of continuity and meaning? In Songs for Dead Parents, Erik Mueggler shows how in contemporary China death and the practices surrounding it have become central to maintaining a connection with the world of ancestors, ghosts, and spirits that socialism explicitly disavowed.
Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork in a mountain community in Yunnan Province, Songs for Dead Parents shows how people view the dead as both material and immaterial, as effigies replace corpses, tombstones replace effigies, and texts eventually replace tombstones in a long process of disentangling the dead from the shared world of matter and memory. It is through these processes that people envision the cosmological underpinnings of the world and assess the social relations that make up their community. Thus, state interventions aimed at reforming death practices have been deeply consequential, and Mueggler traces the transformations they have wrought and their lasting effects.
我真的是太喜欢这个老头研究的中国了,细腻到像个妹子的视角
评分我真的是太喜欢这个老头研究的中国了,细腻到像个妹子的视角
评分土地与身体,物质化与去物质的死。
评分我真的是太喜欢这个老头研究的中国了,细腻到像个妹子的视角
评分大致读过,很喜欢,尤其是Mueggler优雅又诗意的文笔。该书是关于直苴彝族的民族志,从太平天国之后一直写到当下,关注点是彝族社会中围绕死亡(逝去的人)所展开的社会关系。印象比较深的部分是彝人在汉人的影响下开始由火葬改为土葬,以这种方式产生并维持精英的身份认同。在火葬向土葬转变的过程中,墓碑被制造和刊刻,为“文字下乡”和国家权力的渗透提供空间,同时新的身体观,一种期待身体被持久物质化的观念也被传入当地社会。
Songs for Dead Parents 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书