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.
Julie Y. Chu is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.
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3.5 涉及到的面向十分之多 基本把近些年关于中国的人类学主题都汇总了一下。但感觉串起全书的线索 circulation of objects and things有点散,三个部分之间关联不是很大。semiotics的部分展开不够,基本上来源于Nancy Munn。有很多很有趣的观察都是点到为止,感觉可以更深入。 第二部分和第六章中telephone line和images的circulation,以及最后关于麻将的论述有趣。 第三第四章可以联系Ticktin那本讲法国移民的subject making部分,有很多相似之处。
评分Mobility, localization.
评分Mobility, localization.
评分读之前预期太高,所以读完有点小失落,不过还是很好了
评分从一半的时候就在等这句"agents of fate ... were never beyond approach and negotiation"等到了倒数第三页的最后一句话,急死我了。第二章和最后一章最精彩。用词好难..
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