作者:
Erik Mueggler
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埃里克·缪格勒 出版社: University Of Chicago Press 副标题: Corpse, Text, and World in Southwest China 出版年: 2017-10-6 页数: 352 定价: USD 75.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780226483382
In a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer them a sense of continu ity and meaning? In Songs for Dead Parents, Erik Mueggler shows how in contemporary China death and the practices surrounding it have become central to maintaining a connection with the world of ancestors, ghosts, and spirits that socialism ex...
In a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer them a sense of continu ity and meaning? In Songs for Dead Parents, Erik Mueggler shows how in contemporary China death and the practices surrounding it have become central to maintaining a connection with the world of ancestors, ghosts, and spirits that socialism explicitly disavowed.
Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork in a mountain community in Yunnan Province, Songs for Dead Parents shows how people view the dead as both material and immaterial, as effigies replace corpses, tombstones replace effigies, and texts eventually replace tombstones in a long process of disentangling the dead from the shared world of matter and memory. It is through these processes that people envision the cosmological underpinnings of the world and assess the social relations that make up their community. Thus, state interventions aimed at reforming death practices have been deeply consequential, and Mueggler traces the transformations they have wrought and their lasting effects.
Erik Mueggler is professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. He was a 2002 winner of the MacArthur Foundation Genius award.
目录
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
part 1
1 Corpse, Stone, Door, Text
2 A Life, a Soul, a Body
3 Playing with Corpses
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
part 1
1 Corpse, Stone, Door, Text
2 A Life, a Soul, a Body
3 Playing with Corpses
4 Making the Dead Modern
part 2
5 Songs for Dead Parents
6 Earth Work
7 Soul Work
8 Body Work
Epilogue
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
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原文摘录
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Living bodies lay hidden as though in shadows cast by the dead:mysterious assemblages of potential attributes,awaiting death to be exposed,dissected,elaborated,compiled,celebrated,defeated.Bridges of intricate architecture were suspended over the gulf that separated the actual bod-ies of the dead from those who were as yet only potentially dead. (查看原文)
In addition to sketching out the late history of this verbal art, this chapter starts to outline a method for approaching it as a direct attempt to imagine and describe a world of subjugated others, who must be controlled, forced to live, and put to work by means of a bureaucratic machine. This method will be expanded and elaborated in the following chapters as I work through the songs of the two chants. Yet imagine and describe are not quite the right words: I will argue that, in addition, these long intricate, repetitive speeches work to construct a world for dead others and install dead bodies in that world. The stance the speeches take towards the dead others is ethically complex. While they subject the dead to bureaucratic authority in the interests of the living, the world they fashi... (查看原文)
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0 有用 RoderickFranco 2025-10-05 03:20:23 中国香港
4。以生死二元对立的局限性出发，围绕死亡仪式，灵媒歌谣的宇宙观，和社会变革不断往返和回味。不知道是不是因为这个领域和区域我都不够熟悉，读到后面总觉得有种重复感。但那个短促的总结部分一下子升华了（感觉差不多看哭了）。“死者就是我们”，所以从自我到整个历史都有得到了一个回答。
16 有用 Roquentin 2019-09-05 14:53:42
大致读过，很喜欢，尤其是Mueggler优雅又诗意的文笔。该书是关于直苴彝族的民族志，从太平天国之后一直写到当下，关注点是彝族社会中围绕死亡（逝去的人）所展开的社会关系。印象比较深的部分是彝人在汉人的影响下开始由火葬改为土葬，以这种方式产生并维持精英的身份认同。在火葬向土葬转变的过程中，墓碑被制造和刊刻，为“文字下乡”和国家权力的渗透提供空间，同时新的身体观，一种期待身体被持久物质化的观念也被传入... 大致读过，很喜欢，尤其是Mueggler优雅又诗意的文笔。该书是关于直苴彝族的民族志，从太平天国之后一直写到当下，关注点是彝族社会中围绕死亡（逝去的人）所展开的社会关系。印象比较深的部分是彝人在汉人的影响下开始由火葬改为土葬，以这种方式产生并维持精英的身份认同。在火葬向土葬转变的过程中，墓碑被制造和刊刻，为“文字下乡”和国家权力的渗透提供空间，同时新的身体观，一种期待身体被持久物质化的观念也被传入当地社会。 (展开)
1 有用 不爱吃零食 2023-08-31 22:44:21 浙江
同样写死亡和葬礼，同样有墓碑上的text analysis和家族追溯比去年读的那本好多了。
2 有用 梵子 2018-04-16 20:39:40
土地与身体，物质化与去物质的死。
0 有用 水逆退散 2025-10-05 21:29:50 中国香港
感觉每一章都在写同样的东西，为了赶作业囫囵吞枣地读完了一整本。非常喜欢整本书的argument，但是论证的部分没有耐心的话真的很难仔细看下去