The Sensorial Production of the Social

被引:88
作者
Chau, Adam Yuet [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, England
基金
美国安德鲁·梅隆基金会;
关键词
Red-hot sociality; social heat; temple festival;
D O I
10.1080/00141840802563931
中图分类号
Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
030303 ;
摘要
In China temple festivals are replete with noises, sights, smells, tastes, and ambient sensory productions. When worshipers converge on a particular temple festival, they produce and experience honghuo (social heat or red-hot sociality). This native concept of honghuo highlights the importance of the social production of a heightened sensory ambience as well as the sensorial production of sociality. In co-producing honghuo the festivalgoers are exhibiting a 'resonant body-person' that is in accord with the spirit of mutual responsiveness. I propose a sensory-production model of sensory analysis that foregrounds the active participatory role of social agents in producing a sensorially rich social world. This model extends from, yet also critiques the prevalent cultural phenomenological approach to investigating sensory orders in different cultures. A 'mindful body' or an 'attentive body' is only the pre-condition for any person's action-full lifeworld.
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页码:485 / 504
页数:20
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