Songs for Dead Parents

Erik Mueggler is professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. He was a 2002 winner of the MacArthur Foundation Genius award.

出版者:University Of Chicago Press

作者:Erik Mueggler

页数:352

出版时间:2017-10-6

价格:USD 75.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780226483382

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.

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土地与身体，物质化与去物质的死。

土地与身体，物质化与去物质的死。

土地与身体，物质化与去物质的死。

土地与身体，物质化与去物质的死。

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