C. Fred Blake is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i.
For a thousand years across the length and breadth of China and beyond, people have burned paper replicas of valuable things—most often money—for the spirits of deceased family members, ancestors, and myriads of demons and divinities. Although frequently denigrated as wasteful and vulgar and at times prohibited by governing elites, today this venerable custom is as popular as ever. Burning Money explores the cultural logic of this common practice while addressing larger anthropological questions concerning the nature of value. The heart of the work integrates Chinese and Western thought and analytics to develop a theoretical framework that the author calls a “materialist aesthetics.” This includes consideration of how the burning of paper money meshes with other customs in China and around the world.
The work examines the custom in contemporary everyday life, its origins in folklore and history, as well as its role in common rituals, in the social formations of dynastic and modern times, and as a “sacrifice” in the act of consecrating the paper money before burning it. Here the author suggests a great divide between the modern means of cultural reproduction through ideology and reification, with its emphasis on nature and realism, and previous pre-capitalist means through ritual and mystification, with its emphasis on authenticity. The final chapters consider how the burning money custom has survived its encounter with the modern global system and internet technology.
Innovative and original in its interpretation of a common ritual in Chinese popular religion, Burning Money will be welcomed by scholars and students of Chinese religion as well as comparative religion specialists and anthropologists interested in contemporary social theory.
原创:发财金刚 不相及研究所 当最后一张面值五百万钞票上的富兰克林头像,被烧出蓝绿色火焰化为灰烬之后,来自美国的油管博主Lisa女士,烧完了人生的第一次纸钱。 她给在天堂的爷爷寄了十个亿,想让这个一辈子潇洒不羁的老东西在天堂别亏待自己。 同样在油管,从印度移民到新...
评分2017-04-01 08:52:33 [杭州网] 2017年3月31日讯,只要临近清明节,北京街头就会冒出大批兜售黄纸钱、冥币、纸元宝等纸质祭祀品的游商,正规殡葬店也会悄悄增加入货量,借着这一年一度的销售旺季赚上一笔。《殡葬管理条例》明确规定,禁止制造和售卖冥币、纸人纸马等封建迷信...
评分译者:袁剑、刘玺鸿 纸钱习俗的历史缘起 历史常常被认为是过去事件的事实上的连续,但其也是过去事件的当下叙述。这第二种或者说叙述性的层面,则基于文人墨客的书面记载。诸如纸钱习俗这样的案例中,想要在这些书面记载中抓住活生生的现实是有困难的。这一问题也困扰着人类学...
评分“千百年来,中国人一直以化烧纸扎——特别是之前——的方式祭奠已故亲人、祖先以及神灵。尽管被指为浪费,且曾被官方禁止,但这一民间传统长盛不衰。” 或许正在读这段文字的大部分人在今天都做了同一件事情——烧钱。烧钱是一件很有魔力的事情,纸扎的物件经过烈火焚烧之后,...
评分1 在第100页的仪式五步中(manes worship),有所谓的可见(燃烧过程)、不可见(阴间用钱)的区别。 而按照快慢,食物(味觉/生命)、香(嗅觉、欲望)、蜡烛(视觉/时空)、纸钱(触觉/备料)、鞭炮(听觉/此时)也被分类。按照五种感官的分法,真是过去没想过。 不过细想想...
读过作者05年那篇论文,没想到居然扩写成书了。目光所及,少有的以中国烧纸钱为主题的著作。其实我自己越写越觉得混乱,“纸钱”远比我想象的要复杂。。。非常羞愧地还是写完了。
评分读过作者05年那篇论文,没想到居然扩写成书了。目光所及,少有的以中国烧纸钱为主题的著作。其实我自己越写越觉得混乱,“纸钱”远比我想象的要复杂。。。非常羞愧地还是写完了。
评分表面上看来覆盖较广的田野实则杂乱,现象学的使用更是生硬。想要用纸钱来构建阴阳两界的日常生活体系,超出了对象与理论结构本身的可驾驭范围。
评分重点看了Value这章。
评分重点看了Value这章。
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