This paper discusses the history of a famous commercial village in eastern Guangdong from the mid-Ming to the late Qing, and the corresponding development of a system of temples. It endeavors to show that the relation...This paper discusses the history of a famous commercial village in eastern Guangdong from the mid-Ming to the late Qing, and the corresponding development of a system of temples. It endeavors to show that the relationship between spatial arrangement and internal workings of rural temples observed in the course of field research was the outcome of cultural accumulation and settlement in a long process of historical change. This "belief space" existed in a state of unceasing development.展开更多
The marriage of historiography and anthropology gave birth to historical anthropology.For historians,historical anthropology is a research approach and research trend:it adopts anthropology’s field research methods,a...The marriage of historiography and anthropology gave birth to historical anthropology.For historians,historical anthropology is a research approach and research trend:it adopts anthropology’s field research methods,and emphasizes the historicity of the research subject;it tries to keep a distance from the research subject,and makes every effort to collect materials directly from the field.On this basis,it forms a research trend stressing time and process as well as space and structure;attaching importance to the analysis,examination,selection and interpretation of historical data;emphasizing “participatory experience” and a sense of historical presence,and also stressing the analysis of the different expressions of all classes and organizations.This trend stresses the historical formation process of regions,and stresses that researchers should not be constrained by rigid limits of time and space,but rather take human beings as the center of their research,and problems as its basis,to break dualistic opposites of “state vs.locality”,“general knowledge vs.local knowledge”,“big traditions vs.small traditions”,and so on,and to further develop modern regional social history.Two cases—the chrysanthemum festival of Xiaolan Town,Zhongshan County,Guangdong Province,and local self-government in the Jiangnan region in the late Qing and early Republican periods—can be used to illustrate the relationship between historical anthropology and modern regional social history.展开更多
This article argues that the "sand flat-private field" pattern was the outcome of interaction between local society and national power in the course of exploitation of the Pearl River Delta. People used vari...This article argues that the "sand flat-private field" pattern was the outcome of interaction between local society and national power in the course of exploitation of the Pearl River Delta. People used various orthodox cultural symbols to maintain their own economic power and political influence. Thus, this arrangement of geographical space was in reality a local power structure in a context of national identity.展开更多
文摘This paper discusses the history of a famous commercial village in eastern Guangdong from the mid-Ming to the late Qing, and the corresponding development of a system of temples. It endeavors to show that the relationship between spatial arrangement and internal workings of rural temples observed in the course of field research was the outcome of cultural accumulation and settlement in a long process of historical change. This "belief space" existed in a state of unceasing development.
文摘The marriage of historiography and anthropology gave birth to historical anthropology.For historians,historical anthropology is a research approach and research trend:it adopts anthropology’s field research methods,and emphasizes the historicity of the research subject;it tries to keep a distance from the research subject,and makes every effort to collect materials directly from the field.On this basis,it forms a research trend stressing time and process as well as space and structure;attaching importance to the analysis,examination,selection and interpretation of historical data;emphasizing “participatory experience” and a sense of historical presence,and also stressing the analysis of the different expressions of all classes and organizations.This trend stresses the historical formation process of regions,and stresses that researchers should not be constrained by rigid limits of time and space,but rather take human beings as the center of their research,and problems as its basis,to break dualistic opposites of “state vs.locality”,“general knowledge vs.local knowledge”,“big traditions vs.small traditions”,and so on,and to further develop modern regional social history.Two cases—the chrysanthemum festival of Xiaolan Town,Zhongshan County,Guangdong Province,and local self-government in the Jiangnan region in the late Qing and early Republican periods—can be used to illustrate the relationship between historical anthropology and modern regional social history.
文摘This article argues that the "sand flat-private field" pattern was the outcome of interaction between local society and national power in the course of exploitation of the Pearl River Delta. People used various orthodox cultural symbols to maintain their own economic power and political influence. Thus, this arrangement of geographical space was in reality a local power structure in a context of national identity.
