The Vezo, a fishing people of western Madagascar, are known as 'the people who struggle with the sea'. Dr Astuti explores their identity showing that it is established through what people do rather than being determined by descent. Vezo identity is a 'way of doing' rather than a 'state of being', performative rather than ethnic. However, her innovative analysis of Vezo kinship ...
The Vezo, a fishing people of western Madagascar, are known as 'the people who struggle with the sea'. Dr Astuti explores their identity showing that it is established through what people do rather than being determined by descent. Vezo identity is a 'way of doing' rather than a 'state of being', performative rather than ethnic. However, her innovative analysis of Vezo kinship also uncovers an opposite form of identity based on descent, which she argues is the identity of the dead. By looking at key mortuary rituals that engage the relationship between the living and the dead, Dr Astuti develops a dual model of the Vezo person: the one defined contextually in the present, the other determined by the past.
《依海之人》（People of the sea）是伦敦政治经济学院人类学系教授丽塔·阿斯图蒂（Rita Astuti）的代表作，1995年出版的族群认同研究人类学经典。英文副标题“Identity and descent among the Vezo of Madagascar”指出了这本书的核心问题，身份认同与血统之间的张力。奇怪的...
(展开)
丽塔·阿斯图蒂 作者
不系之舟
华东师范大学出版社2023版
VenusFlu
华东师范大学出版社2023版
书仔
华东师范大学出版社2023版
Waldeinsamkeit
华东师范大学出版社2023版
达果汽
ly的读享生活
还没人写过短评呢