Erik Mueggler is professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. He was a 2002 winner of the MacArthur Foundation Genius award.
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.
發表於2025-01-30
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圖書標籤: 人類學 Mueggler 中國研究 西南 指路經 穆格勒 文本 曆史
大緻讀過,很喜歡,尤其是Mueggler優雅又詩意的文筆。該書是關於直苴彝族的民族誌,從太平天國之後一直寫到當下,關注點是彝族社會中圍繞死亡(逝去的人)所展開的社會關係。印象比較深的部分是彝人在漢人的影響下開始由火葬改為土葬,以這種方式産生並維持精英的身份認同。在火葬嚮土葬轉變的過程中,墓碑被製造和刊刻,為“文字下鄉”和國傢權力的滲透提供空間,同時新的身體觀,一種期待身體被持久物質化的觀念也被傳入當地社會。
評分感謝作者,絕大部分碑文都給瞭原文,有助提高閱讀速度。如果訪談材料也能給原文就好瞭,能讀得更快……
評分大緻讀過,很喜歡,尤其是Mueggler優雅又詩意的文筆。該書是關於直苴彝族的民族誌,從太平天國之後一直寫到當下,關注點是彝族社會中圍繞死亡(逝去的人)所展開的社會關係。印象比較深的部分是彝人在漢人的影響下開始由火葬改為土葬,以這種方式産生並維持精英的身份認同。在火葬嚮土葬轉變的過程中,墓碑被製造和刊刻,為“文字下鄉”和國傢權力的滲透提供空間,同時新的身體觀,一種期待身體被持久物質化的觀念也被傳入當地社會。
評分我真的是太喜歡這個老頭研究的中國瞭,細膩到像個妹子的視角
評分土地與身體,物質化與去物質的死。
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