圖書標籤: 人類學 中國研究 ethnography 移民 anthropology 民族誌 當代中國 mobility
发表于2025-02-02
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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.
終於在去她office hour前一晚翻閱瞭一遍
評分福州偷渡客民族誌 太紮實 也嫉妒這麼好的題 中間關於經濟和宗教的討論一度穿迴Klima’s law of kamma & economics of worth
評分一個有趣的齣發點是「偷生」與「偷渡」的比較,戶口製度下的結構性劣勢和偷渡至美國的「生活在未來」似的嚮往。民族誌材料非常詳盡,很多有趣的討論。作者對於故事的敘述和章節的安排,顯然置入瞭很多巧思,但比較頭痛的是,作者這種「學霸掉書袋」似的將各種理論散佈在全書各處,並且各傢理論點到即止絕不延伸討論的寫作模式,對讀者非常不友善(手動扶額????♀️)。頁79,所謂「偷生」不是"to steal a birth",應該是 stealthily/sneakingly to give a birth。同理,「偷渡」也不是 the stealing of passages.
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。
評分讀之前預期太高,所以讀完有點小失落,不過還是很好瞭
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Cosmologies of Credit pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025