The Five Economies of Contemporary Chinese Funerals
当代中国葬礼的五种经济交换形式
讲者：Andrew Kipnis教授
时间：3月16日（星期五）晚间七点
地点:香港历史博物馆G层演讲厅（香港尖沙咀漆咸道100号）
金钱与物品的流动成为现代社会经济行为的典型代表，金钱本身又被认为是最具交换性与转移性的物品。然而，以民族志资料检视人们使用与思考金钱的多种形式，可发现并非所有金钱或金钱形式的交换均平等。是次演讲以当代中国大陆城市葬礼为民族志，探讨其中经济交换形式的演变。可将这些交换归入不同的经济类别，依照的标准包括：交换参与者所反映的道德原则、受信任与不受信任之交换的演变、可促成或限制交换的合法边界。进而五种经济形式得以显现，分别为：家户间的礼物经济、家户内的继承经济、国家再分配经济、小规模商业经济、大规模国有/资本主义经济。
关于讲者：Andrew Kipnis现为香港中文大学人类学系教授。
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The Five Economies of Contemporary Chinese Funerals
An anthropological talk by Andrew Kipnis
Friday 16 March at 7:00 p.m.
Hong Kong Museum of History
Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, 100 Chatham Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
Economic activity in modern societies is typically identified by the circulation of money, and money itself is considered the most interchangeable or transferable) of objects. But ethnographic examinations of the ways people use and think about money reveal that not all types of money and monetary transactions are equivalent. This talk examines the economic transactions involved in contemporary urban mainland Chinese funerals. It groups these transactions into economic categories based upon the moral rules invoked by those participating in the transaction, the types of trust or distrust the transactions involve and the forms of legal ambiguity which enable and restrict the transactions. Five types of economy emerge: an inter-household gift economy, an intra-household inheritance economy, a state redistributive economy, a small scale petty-trader economy and a large scale state-bureaucratic/capitalist economy.
Andrew Kipnis is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Following the talk, you are invited to a self-paying dinner with the speaker.
For more information, please contact Stan Dyer on 9746 9537
or anthrohk@gmail.com, www.cuhk.edu.hk/ant/hkas, www.facebook.com/hkanthro,@HKASTalks
