講者 Speaker
Myron L. Cohen (Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University)
講題 Title
Middle-Class Confrontations:Post-traditionalism and Fragmentation in China Ethnographies
摘要 Abstract
If the major endeavor of Taiwan anthropology’s study of the ethnic Han during the 1960s and 1970s focused on dimensions of culture and society harking back the Qing dynasty, there remained in the background a powerful but unsatisfied curiosity regarding contemporary China. The opening up of China to fieldwork initiated a period of new concerns with the present, in terms of China research, to be sure, but also for anthropology in Taiwan. The middle-class transformation of society on both sides of the Taiwan Straits created the environment for the new phase of anthropological research. For China anthropology this middle class has become a defining element in the study both of those who are in it, and of those marginal to it. Middle-class characteristics now dominate as themes in this anthropology, ranging from the emergence of individualism and the triumph of the commodified and commodity-seeking self to the struggle for place in an insecure and rapidly changing class setting, to nationalism and even to the impact of automobile ownership. Contrasts with Taiwan highlight and make explicit how the China ethnologies share a framework of research and analysis, albeit one not defined by shared theoretical approaches, but nevertheless one which might be usefully and critically expanded to include areas of concern expressed in Taiwan.
時間 Time
2021年11月29日（週一）09:30~11:30 Monday, November 29, 2021
場地 Venue
中央研究院民族學研究所「第一會議室」（本所舊館3樓323室） 1st Conference Room, 3F, The Old Wing, Inst. of Ethnology, Academia Sinica
連繫人 Contact Persons
林芬安小姐 02-2652-3303, falin@gate.sinica.edu.tw
林音秀小姐 02-2652-3484, world66@gate.sinica.edu.tw
備註 Note
1. 本次演講線上同步開放 Synchronous Online Lecture
2. 全程以英文進行 Language in English
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