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Posted on:2007-05-09Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:T ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360185467384Subject:Cultural anthropology theory and methods
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It's an era that globalization is influencing our daily life. On the one side, the forms of contact between the global and the local are getting more and more complicated, on the other side, both core and periphery factors are involving in an indifferent bilateral power and resources system. In the new ethnographic context, route, as a strategy which is a combination of interaction theory with the notion of system becomes very important.In the Jiazhai Miao community which locate in the Liupanshui SAZ, Guizhou, a new narrative about de-periphery is going on after China government and Norway constructed their first joint-sponsored ecomuseum. Depending on formal techniques and unstructured participant observation, this paper particularly applied a new "multi-sited ethnography" method to grasp the truth of a certain location and people in the shifting history and the shifting daily life.The appearance of the Ecomuseum directly drew the Jiazhai into a router network. In this procedure, the Miao community becomes a location where different resources will be poured first. In the very beginning we thought that might improve their ability to dialogue with outside. But in fact, people paid more attention to the resource...
Keywords/Search Tags:Ecomuseum, de-periphery, route, router
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