Gift-giving is a classic topic in anthropology, where on-going debates involve the principle of reciprocity, the spirit of the gift, and the relationship between gifts and commodities. In this study, the author examines the gift-giving and related social activities that pervade daily life in China, focusing on routine activities - visits between relatives, exchanges of food and labour between neighbours, gift-giving between friends - while not ignoring such special occasions as weddings and funerals. He constructs a classification of exchange behaviour in village society, examining the items of presentation, the types of gift-giving activities, and the hierarchical arrangement of givers and receivers. He also presents new interpretations of key concepts involved in Chinese gift-giving: guanxi (social networks), renqing (norms of interpersonal behaviour), mianzi (face), and bao (reciprocity). The book concludes by showing how the village gift economy has adjusted and survived in response to the radical social changes engendered by four decades of socialism.
Yunxiang Yan is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Policy and Social Development, Fudan University, China. He is the author of Te Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village (Stanford University Press, 1996), Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949–1999 (Stanford University Press, 2003) and The Individualization of Chinese Society (Berg, 2009). His research interests include family and kinship, social change, the individual and individualization, and moral changes in post-Mao China.
“一个奇怪的乱”用礼物的交换来理解南北方人的差异本人不能同意,首先,”南方人精于算计,北方人重义气“,这个前提就有问题,什么标准是义气,什么标准是算计,如果说讲关系聚山头算义气的话,南方人并不差,另外,这个问题本身就是一种带有"刻板模式"(stereotype)...
评分“一个奇怪的乱”用礼物的交换来理解南北方人的差异本人不能同意,首先,”南方人精于算计,北方人重义气“,这个前提就有问题,什么标准是义气,什么标准是算计,如果说讲关系聚山头算义气的话,南方人并不差,另外,这个问题本身就是一种带有"刻板模式"(stereotype)...
评分从前只是简单地认为礼物只是人们之间交流感情用的一个媒介,或者是为了达到一个目的而进行了送礼收礼的活动。阎云翔的《礼物经济与关系网络》一文中,发现原来在中国人的生活中礼物经济渗透在各个方面。文章以作者熟知的下岬村为例,先讲了送礼随礼这样的活动在村民的开支中占...
评分在《礼物的流动:一个中国村庄中的互惠原则与社会网络》中,作者提到礼物的馈赠对于维护关系网络起到至关重要的作用。而关系网络在传统中国社会起到如下几个作用: 1,经济功能。农业社会中的彼此互相扶助,某些劳动环节需要提高效率以赶天时,这需要关系网络来支持。...
评分写得出乎意料得好,想要打4.5星。
评分人类学指定入门读物
评分人类学指定入门读物
评分非常得好,细致而深入。对social norms的研究还是要靠田野工作。
评分非常得好,细致而深入。对social norms的研究还是要靠田野工作。
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