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.
本书的优秀之处在于结构清晰、内容夯实、语言优美和相关理论对话密切,并提供了创新之处。 在读这本书的时候,我意识到了作者们如何在第一章节为自己的研究增添光彩,逐个从各个维度论证本研究的重要性和重要意义。从这个角度上说,以礼物为媒介,作者其实还是在谈关系、人情、...
評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...
評分 評分非常得好,細緻而深入。對social norms的研究還是要靠田野工作。
评分寫得齣乎意料得好,想要打4.5星。
评分1993 Yan Yunxiang 在哈佛做的博士論文。
评分關係的禮物運作
评分人類學指定入門讀物
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