Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: With close attention paid to the contours of healing and vio lence, Erik Mueggler's textured ethnography of the strug gles and memories of Zhizuo makes a timely appearance.This book sheds light upon the forms and substance of mem ory, violence and healing.The violence that Mueggler's ethnography discusses pertains to those experiences which members of Zhizuo (or Lipo) underwent; they are a "minor ity" community residing in Yongren, southwest China.Mueg gler's analysis begins roughly at the end of the 1960s and concludes with the 1990s.The experiences of Zhizuoens began with the political interventions of the Chinese state and included the imposition of the policies associated with Liberation, land reform, collectivization, The Great LeapForward, The Cultural Revolution, the revival of household cultivation, market reforms and family planning campaigns.The violence of these policies involved famine and death experienced by the community during The Great Leap For ward, and the revenge killings occurring after Liberation.More generally, these changes brought about the regimented ordering of time and space, both in practice and in the col lective imagination, as imposed on Zhizuo by a weak socialist state.The author seeks to trace the manners in which the peo ple of Zhizuo carve out a "habitable" place and a historical vision for themselves, at a time when the regimentation of space and "the ordering of time" was the principle preroga
Source: Anthropologica
DOI: 10.2307/25606123
Authors: Arafaat A. Valiani, Erik Mueggler
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1508528628