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作者: Jacob Eyferth
出版社: Harvard University Asia Center
副标题: The Social History of a Community of Handicraft Papermakers in Rural Sichuan, 1920-2000
出版年: 2009-06-30
页数: 425
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780674032880



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This book charts the vicissitudes of a rural community of papermakers in Sichuan. The process of transforming bamboo into paper involves production-related and social skills, as well as the everyday skills that allowed these papermakers to survive in an era of tumultuous change. The Chinese revolution - understood as a series of interconnected political, social, and technological transformations - was, Jacob Eyferth argues, as much about the redistribution of skill, knowledge, and technical control as it was about the redistribution of land and political power. The larger context for this study is the 'rural-urban divide': the institutional, social, and economic cleavages that separate rural people from urbanites. This book traces the changes in the distribution of knowledge that led to a massive transfer of technical control from villages to cities, from primary producers to managerial elites, and from women to men. It asks how a vision of rural people as unskilled has affected their place in the body politic and contributed to their disenfranchisement. By viewing skill as a contested resource, subject to distribution struggles, it addresses the issue of how revolution, state-making, and marketization have changed rural China.

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2011年列文森奖颁奖词：

《吃竹根饭》追踪了一群生活在四川成都平原边缘的造纸人的历史。在详实的描写中，雅各布·伊弗斯分析了二十世纪上半叶农村造纸的增长、停滞与毛时代的濒临消亡，以及1980年代和1990年代在有些家庭中的复兴。他描绘了艰苦的劳动日常并抓住了深嵌于这些日常中所包裹的社区与家庭关系、性别分工和市场网络以及宗教组织。

伊弗斯掌握了极其丰富的资料以书写个体与家庭的亲密关系，当时他们努力通过技术能力和勤奋工作来谋生。伊弗斯将档案资料、参与观察、口述史和访谈的精巧结合不仅开拓了新的研究路径，而且在方法论上也有所创新，这对将来进行田野工作的历史学家们来说，无疑是一个挑战。

在明晰而有力的笔下，伊弗斯揭示了毛时代政策下城乡之间的鸿沟。在毛时代，国家贬抑乡镇企业以及维持生活和社区的地方性知识。不仅在四川农村是这样，整个中国的村镇都是如此。通过对概念文献的细致爬梳、创新的方法论、观察农村生活方式敏锐的眼光以及精密的分析技巧，伊弗斯发展了一种基于细节的分析方法，但是却对看待转型时代中国农村剧烈的政治经济变革中任何一个村庄的困境都提供了卓有成效的重要视角。

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对于民俗学而言，作者的研究与民俗学研究当代手工艺人、民间工艺是有共同的话题。