After receiving her doctorate in Social Anthropology from Harvard University, Erika E.S. Evasdottir was a Killam post-doctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia. Her research focus is now Chinese law, including issues of bureaucracy and authority within the Chinese legal community.
发表于2024-12-23
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图书标签: 人类学 知识分子 海外中国研究 Erika 社会学 当代中国史 职业规划 美国学者
In the west, the idea of autonomy is often associated with a sense of freedom – a self-interested state of being unfettered by rules or obligations to others. This original anthropological study explores a type of “obedient” autonomy that thrives on setbacks, blossoms as more rules are imposed, and flourishes in adversity. Obedient Autonomy analyzes this model, and explains its precepts through examining the specialized and highly organized discipline of archaeology in China.
The book follows Chinese students on their journey to becoming full-fledged archaeologists in a bureaucracy-saturated environment. Often required to travel in teams to the countryside, archaeologists are uniquely obliged to overcome divisions among themselves, between themselves and their peasant-workers, and between themselves and bureaucratic officials. This analysis reveals how these interactions provide teachers of archaeology with stories used to foster obedient autonomy in their students. Moreover, it demonstrates how this form of autonomy enables a person to order and control their future careers in what appears to be a disorderly and uncertain world.
A masterly contextualization of archaeology in China, Obedient Autonomy shows how the discipline has accommodated itself to a Chinese social structure, and uncovers the moral, ethical, political, and economic underpinnings of that context. It will be accessible to students of anthropology even as it will provoke Euro-American archaeologists and interest social theorists of science, philosophers, gender theorists, and students of Chinese society.
这是本厚黑学的书吗。。。。理论讨论部分还不错。
评分第五章足矣,“第五章是编辑一个字都没有改过的部分。”(Erika)
评分可能是我读过有关中国知识分子的书里最有趣的一本了,真的是醍醐灌顶。
评分可能是我读过有关中国知识分子的书里最有趣的一本了,真的是醍醐灌顶。
评分颇有趣味不过资料比较老一些了,实际上现下的一些情况又有了新的变化
Obedient Autonomy 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书