About the author
Maris Boyd Gillette is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Haverford College.
Between Mecca and Beijing examines how a community of urban Chinese Muslims uses consumption to position its members more favorably within the Chinese government's official paradigm for development. Residents of the old Muslim district in the ancient Chinese capital of Xi'an belong to an official minority (the Hui nationality) that has been classified by the state as "backward" in comparison to China's majority (Han) population. Though these Hui urbanites, like the vast majority of Chinese citizens, accept the assumptions about social evolution upon which such labels are based, they actively reject the official characterization of themselves as less civilized and modern than the Han majority.
By selectively consuming goods and adopting fashions they regard as modern and non-Chinese—which include commodities and styles from both the West and the Muslim world—these Chinese Muslims seek to demonstrate that they are capable of modernizing without the guidance or assistance of the state. In so doing, they challenge one of the fundamental roles the Chinese Communist government has claimed for itself, that of guide and purveyor of modernity. Through a detailed study of the daily life—eating habits, dress styles, housing, marriage and death rituals, religious practices, education, family organization—of the Hui inhabitants of Xi'an, the author explores the effects of a state-sponsored ideology of progress on an urban Chinese Muslim neighborhood.
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讀Dru C.Gladney 那本Muslim Chinese的時候曾想到為何他不分析西安的迴族聚居區,果然在這本書中看到瞭,西安固然具有十分典型的民族學研究意義,特彆是將Barley Market Street打造成迴民街,將研究視角放置在瞭消費主義浪潮中的傳統迴族社區的現代化轉型,以及被貼上feudal和superstitious的標簽之後,如何在反抗標簽的同時,開拓帶有自身特點的現代化道路,以及和國傢倡導的現代化道路之間的角力。關於清真食品的概念及其流行的原因的分析十分獨到,但較之於Gladney的專著,在一定程度上缺乏更為深入的民族史和民族政策的分析,使得稍有概念先行的嫌疑。
评分這本書解釋瞭modernization 和 consumerism之間的微妙關係。並通過清真食物為切入口,展現瞭在主流社會中西安迴族的生存狀況。A good reference to explore the so-called CHINESE-NESS
评分讀Dru C.Gladney 那本Muslim Chinese的時候曾想到為何他不分析西安的迴族聚居區,果然在這本書中看到瞭,西安固然具有十分典型的民族學研究意義,特彆是將Barley Market Street打造成迴民街,將研究視角放置在瞭消費主義浪潮中的傳統迴族社區的現代化轉型,以及被貼上feudal和superstitious的標簽之後,如何在反抗標簽的同時,開拓帶有自身特點的現代化道路,以及和國傢倡導的現代化道路之間的角力。關於清真食品的概念及其流行的原因的分析十分獨到,但較之於Gladney的專著,在一定程度上缺乏更為深入的民族史和民族政策的分析,使得稍有概念先行的嫌疑。
评分閱於2006-2009
评分補標,這好像是我讀的第一本民族誌。然而幾年過去N次路過西安的火車站和機場,卻從沒進過城。
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