Hans Steinmüller: Communities of Complicity

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Beschreibung

Everyday life in contemporary rural China is characterized by an increased sense of moral challenge and uncertainty. Ordinary people often find themselves caught between the moral frameworks of capitalism, Maoism and the Chinese tradition. This ethnographic study of the village of Zhongba (in Hubei Province, central China) is an attempt to grasp the ethical reflexivity of everyday life in rural China. Drawing on descriptions of village life, interspersed with targeted theoretical analyses, the author examines how ordinary people construct their own senses of their lives and their futures in everyday activities: building houses, working, celebrating marriages and funerals, gambling and dealing with local government. The villagers confront moral uncertainty; they creatively harmonize public discourse and local practice; and sometimes they resolve incoherence and unease through the use of irony. In so doing, they perform everyday ethics and re-create transient moral communities at a time of massive social dislocation.

Über den Autor

Hans SteinmA¿ller is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and convenor of the MSc China in Comparative Perspective at the London School of Economics.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Notes on the Text

Introduction

Chapter 1. A Remote Place from Three Angles
Chapter 2. Gabled Roofs and Concrete Ceilings
Chapter 3. Work Through the Food Basket
Chapter 4. Channelling Along a Centering Path
Chapter 5. The Embarrassment of Li
Chapter 6. Gambling and the Moving Boundaries of Social Heat
Chapter 7. Face Projects in Rural Construction

Conclusion: Everyday Ethics, Cultural Intimacy, and Irony

Appendix A: Newspaper Report
Appendix B: Expenses for the Construction of a House
Appendix C: List of Money Gifts and Tasks
Appendix D: Subsidies Given to Three Households

Glossary

Bibliography

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Fachbereich:	Völkerkunde
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Völkerkunde
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780857458902
ISBN-10:	0857458906
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Steinmüller, Hans
Hersteller:	Berghahn Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	235 x 157 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Hans Steinmüller
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.03.2013
Gewicht:	0,577 kg

Artikel-ID: 105250235