Julie Y. Chu is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.
Year after year a woman sits in her bare living quarters with her bags packed. She is waiting for a phone call from her snakehead, or human smuggler. That longed-for call will send her out her door, away from Fuzhou, China, on a perilous, illicit journey to the United States. Nothing diffuses the promise of an overseas destiny: neither the ever-increasing smuggling fee for successful travel nor her knowledge of the deadly risks in transit and the exploitative labor conditions abroad. The sense of imminent departure enchants her every move and overshadows the banalities of her present life. In this engrossing ethnographic account of how the Fuzhounese translate their desires for mobility into projects worth pursuing, Julie Y. Chu focuses on Fuzhounese efforts to recast their social horizons beyond the limitations of "peasant life" in China. Transcending utilitarian questions of risks and rewards, she considers the overflow of aspirations in the Fuzhounese pursuit of transnational destinations. Chu attends not just to the migration of bodies, but also to flows of shipping containers, planes, luggage, immigration papers, money, food, prayers, and gods. By analyzing the intersections and disjunctures of these various flows, she explains how mobility operates as a sign embodied through everyday encounters and in the transactions of persons and things.
發表於2024-05-14
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圖書標籤: 人類學 中國研究 ethnography 移民 anthropology 民族誌 當代中國 mobility
Mobility, localization.
評分事無巨細,各種理論。。但民族誌還是非常紮實的。
評分事無巨細,各種理論。。但民族誌還是非常紮實的。
評分一般般 各種見解和論調都很一般般 如果我懂英文的話應該就不這麼一般般瞭吧…
評分3.5 涉及到的麵嚮十分之多 基本把近些年關於中國的人類學主題都匯總瞭一下。但感覺串起全書的綫索 circulation of objects and things有點散,三個部分之間關聯不是很大。semiotics的部分展開不夠,基本上來源於Nancy Munn。有很多很有趣的觀察都是點到為止,感覺可以更深入。 第二部分和第六章中telephone line和images的circulation,以及最後關於麻將的論述有趣。 第三第四章可以聯係Ticktin那本講法國移民的subject making部分,有很多相似之處。
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