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Harriet Evans, Michael Rowlands - Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China

Av Harriet Evans, Michael Rowlands

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The recent heritage boom in China is transforming local social, economic, and cultural life and reshaping domestic and global notions of China's national identity. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork conducted largely by young anthropologists in China, Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China departs from the dominant top-down UNESCO-influenced narrative of cultural heritage preservation and approaches the local not as a fixed definition of place but as a shifting site of negotiation between state, entrepreneurial, transcultural, and local community interests. The volume takes readers along an unusual trajectory between a disadvantaged neighborhood in central Beijing, metropolitan centers in Anhui and Sichuan, Quanzhou in the southeast, and Yunnan in the southwest before finally ending at the great Samye Monastery in Tibet. Across these sites, the contributors converge in apprehending the grassroots as an arena of everyday life and belonging underpinning ordinary social interactions and cultural practices as diverse as funeral rituals, Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimages, and encounters between young contemporary artists and the Bloomsbury Group. In examining the diversity of local cultural practices and knowledge that underpin ideas about cultural value, this volume argues that grassroots cultural beliefs are essential to the liveability and sustainability of life and living heritage.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-10-06
  • Mått: 162 x 227 x 24 mm
  • Vikt: 658 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 290
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • Medarbetare: Wang Mingming
  • ISBN: 9781793632739
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Harriet Evans is professor emerita of Chinese cultural studies at the University of Westminster and visiting professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. Michael Rowlands is professor emeritus of anthropology and material culture at University College London.

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China’s vast economic transformation has ushered in a “heritage boom,” in which state actors, economic elites, and ordinary people struggle over how the material sediments of the past might be preserved, refurbished, commodified, authorized as signs of the nation, or tended as the soil of lived attachments to place. In this conceptually rich volume, scholars based in China collaborate with researchers from the UK to interrogate a diverse variety of heritage projects, from Beijing’s alleys and Anhui’s mountains to the temples and tea plantations of Fujian, and from museums and minority ethnic communities in the southwest to Tibet’s oldest monastery. These essays interrogate heritage work from a “grassroots” perspective, analyzing its contradictions, revealing its many forms of violence, and thinking through alternative ways that the preservation of the material past might coexist with local worlds where the past is a lived reality.

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