E Mueggler
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 51433 |
|---|---|
| NOME | E Mueggler |
| PRENOMES | E |
| SOBRENOME | Mueggler |
| ASSINATURA | MUEGGLER E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5904-1574 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Divination and the scapular theory of writing in north Yunnan
This essay explores the Nasu or Né variety of the “Yi” writing system, used in many indigenous communities in southwest China. I argue that Né texts participate in a distinctive form of life for humans, ancestors, and spirits. At the levels of graph, verse, and page, textual practice traverses meaning and image to amplify ritual practices that manage relations between humans and non-humans. This analysis works against the “modernist” sense that N…
Life in old Beijing
Lady Qu's Inscriptions
In 1533, Lady Qu, native prefect of Wuding Prefecture in northern Yunnan, sponsored the inscription of two texts on a cliff face at the center of her domain. One was in Nasu, the language of the ruling lineage; the other was in Chinese. Both commemorated the long, powerful line of Né (or Yi) native chieftains to which Lady Qu was heir. Yet they gave contradictory accounts of the forms of chiefly succession, sources of political authority, and geo…
Rewriting Bondage
The article examines legal plaints authored by the household slaves, bondsmen, bonded tenants, concubine, wife, sisters, and affines of the chieftain of a native domain in northern Yunnan Province, China in 1760. These kin and enslaved persons of the chiefly house were struggling over whether a slave baby should become the chieftain of this sprawling realm. The documents were preserved in the hereditary house of the native chieftain along with so…
Corpses and voices across worlds
Songs for Dead Parents
Soul Work
Chapter 7 analyzes the second of three parts of a speech to the dead. The songs of this part fashion immaterial bodies for the dead, their intensive bodies. The songs are parallel to each other in in series along two axes, which intersect in rows (or tə̠) and columns (or je). The simple progression of series examined in Chapter 6 evolves here into a structure of many folds or planes along three dimensions, traversed by orthogonal lines of force. …
Epilogue
Making the Dead Modern
Chapter 4 compares funeral laments in Júzò, a Tibeto-Burman-speaking community in Yunnan Province, from two periods: the early 1990s, after ritual revitalization was thoroughly underway, and 2011, after this community had come into more intimate contact with the modernity-obsessed cultures of urban and semi-urban China. Laments fashion grief in a public setting by conceptualizing the dead and their relations with the living in vivid poetic langua…
Playing with Corpses
This chapter examines the processes of sacrifice and exchange in a Lòlop’ò (or Yi) community in Yunnan Province in two major funeral rituals. These processes wrap a dead body in ideal images of social relations. These images accumulate into a whole, the social world seen from the perspective of a dead couple: the perfected image of the relations that composed that couple in life. From the perspective of the living person, work for the dead create…
Corpse, Stone, Door, Text
This chapter uses tombstones as ethnographic sources to examine the introduction of Chinese-language writing into the field of death. Most Tibeto-Burman-speaking peoples in Southwest China abandoned cremation in favor of burial the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, following a loss of political autonomy and a massive influx of immigrants from the interior. Inscriptions on stones, erected over buried corpses, shifted textual agency from skilled…
Body Work
The third part of a speech to the dead focuses on fashioning material bodies for the dead, their extensive bodies. The songs describe two such bodies: an ancestral effigy given a home in a descendant’s house and a great effigy constructed as these songs were being performed. These songs trace a journey from intensive body to extensive body. The journey takes the form of a series: loss ⇒ search ⇒ encounter ⇒ assembly ⇒ destruction. This chapter al…
Songs for Dead Parents
This chapter introduces two long speeches to the dead, performed at two funeral ceremonies abandoned in the early socialist era. These speeches were said to contain 72 “songs” and to take eight hours to perform. They were said to explain the origins of the world, of all the beasts, birds and insects, and of every kind of invisible beings, and to contain all the secrets of life and death. The speeches were suppressed after 1958, and the ritualists…
A Life, a Soul, a Body
Work on the dead in this Lòlop'ò (or Yi) community takes the form of making them material and immaterial. Social personhood is mutual entanglement through shared substance; dead persons are subjected to a long labor of disentanglement. Through work on the dead, people assess social relations and envision the cosmological foundations of the social world. This chapter focuses on the processes of assembling a fully social body for the dead in the re…
Earth Work
This chapter considers the first of three parts of a speech to the dead performed before the socialist period. The twelve songs in this part of the speech construct a world for the dead person and people that word with living beings. First it fashions sky and earth; then it connects them with a vertical axis. Once earth and sky relate to each other, there can be sacrifice. Once sacrifice is possible, it can be used to bring features of the earth …
Corpse, Stone, Door, Text
Using tombstones as ethnographic sources, this article examines the introduction of writing into the field of death ritual in an Yi community in Yunnan Province, China. Most Tibeto-Burman-speaking peoples in Southwest China abandoned cremation in favor of burial in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, following a loss of political autonomy and a massive influx of immigrants from the interior. Inscriptions on stones, erected over buried corpse…
Cats give funerals to rats
This article compares funeral laments in a Tibeto-Burman-speaking community in Yunnan, China, from two periods: the early 1990s, after ritual revitalization was thoroughly underway, and 2011, after this community had come into more intimate contact with the modernity-obsessed cultures of urban and semi-urban China. Laments fashion grief in a public setting by conceptualizing the dead and their relations with the living in vivid poetic language. L…
Bodies Real and Virtual
In 1934, during twenty-eight years of wandering west China, the American botanist Joseph Francis Charles Rock made a brief trip to England. He clipped the obituary of an old friend from the Times and pasted it in his diary. On the facing page, he pasted a photograph two decades old, and wrote this caption:J. F. Rock (standing) with his older friend Fred Muir, Entomologist at the Haw[aii] Sugar Planter's Exp[eriment] Sta[tion], Honolulu. Photograp…
The Lapponicum Sea
In his own mission to versify the planet, or at least an exemplary portion of it, Captain Francis Kingdon-Ward (1885-1958) returned repeatedly, even obsessively, to certain places on the alpine plateaus of Northwest Yunnan and Southeast Tibet, where the vegetation, refracted through the Aleph of what I shall argue was a deliberate, laborious, and disciplined optical practice, became liquid, a sea
Popular Religion in China
Popular Religion in China: The Imperial Metaphor. Stephan Feuchtwang. Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 2001. 283 pp
Dancing Fools
In 1987, the Nationalities Commission of Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, established a traditional festival in an outlying district and dubbed it, awkwardly, the Clothing Competition Festival (saizhuangjie). Two years later, the event having proved a success, the commission celebrated it in a magazine article as an exuberant, aesthetically exciting, and politically innocent revival of minority nationality customs
Spectral Subversions
In much of rural China, memories of past violence are crucial to people's sense of their own relation to distant centers of state power. In particular, memories of death from hunger during the Great Leap famine (1958–61)1 In the famine that followed the Great Leap Forward, twenty to thirty million people died of hunger-related causes. The famine is usually attributed to overprocurement, bad harvests, disastrous agricultural policies, chaotic tran…
The Poetics of Grief and the Price of Hemp in Southwest China
One bright winter afternoon in 1992, in the mountains of Yunnan Province, China, Li Yong told me a story. Li Yong and I were crowded into a courtyard in his largely Yi (or Lòlop'ò) village, at a mortuary ritual for one of his affines. In the courtyard's center, where the corpse had lain in its coffin seven days before, a crude trough had been scratched into the earth, with a shallow hole at the end where the corpse's mouth had been. The dead woma…
Procreative Metaphor and Productive Unity in an Yi Headmanship
Pendant les annees 1990, les residents d'une communaute montagnarde en Chine du Sud-Ouest initierent des discours officiels a propos de leur nationalite. Ils affirmaient qu'ils avaient autrefois possede une chefferie rotative, une institution autrefois largement repandue dans les regions a minorite Yi de la province de Yunnan. Dans la memoire des paysans Yi (ou Lolop'o), cette institution protegeait leur communaute des exces les moins previsibles…
A Carceral Regime
Dancing Fools
In 1987, the Nationalities Commission of Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, established a traditional festival in an outlying district and dubbed it, awkwardly, the Clothing Competition Festival (saizhuangjie). Two years later, the event having proved a success, the commission celebrated it in a magazine article as an exuberant, aesthetically exciting, and politically innocent revival of minority nationality customs
The Poetics of Grief and the Price of Hemp in Southwest China
One bright winter afternoon in 1992, in the mountains of Yunnan Province, China, Li Yong told me a story. Li Yong and I were crowded into a courtyard in his largely Yi (or Lòlop'ò) village, at a mortuary ritual for one of his affines. In the courtyard's center, where the corpse had lain in its coffin seven days before, a crude trough had been scratched into the earth, with a shallow hole at the end where the corpse's mouth had been. The dead woma…
Money, the Mountain, and State Power in a Naxi Village
This a study of daily life in Yulong, a Naxi village, and the nearby market town of Lijiang in northern Yunnan Province.' It is also a response to recent calls to put time and space at the center of social analysis (Giddens, 1984; Harvey, 1989). It concentrates on space, taking its production and manipulation in Lijiang county as fundamental to the daily experience of such varied phenomena as money, reciprocity, the power of the state, and the ne…
A Carceral Regime
Corpse, Stone, Door, Text
Using tombstones as ethnographic sources, this article examines the introduction of writing into the field of death ritual in an Yi community in Yunnan Province, China. Most Tibeto-Burman-speaking peoples in Southwest China abandoned cremation in favor of burial in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, following a loss of political autonomy and a massive influx of immigrants from the interior. Inscriptions on stones, erected over buried corpse…
Cats give funerals to rats
This article compares funeral laments in a Tibeto-Burman-speaking community in Yunnan, China, from two periods: the early 1990s, after ritual revitalization was thoroughly underway, and 2011, after this community had come into more intimate contact with the modernity-obsessed cultures of urban and semi-urban China. Laments fashion grief in a public setting by conceptualizing the dead and their relations with the living in vivid poetic language. L…
The Lapponicum Sea
In his own mission to versify the planet, or at least an exemplary portion of it, Captain Francis Kingdon-Ward (1885-1958) returned repeatedly, even obsessively, to certain places on the alpine plateaus of Northwest Yunnan and Southeast Tibet, where the vegetation, refracted through the Aleph of what I shall argue was a deliberate, laborious, and disciplined optical practice, became liquid, a sea
Lady Qu's Inscriptions
In 1533, Lady Qu, native prefect of Wuding Prefecture in northern Yunnan, sponsored the inscription of two texts on a cliff face at the center of her domain. One was in Nasu, the language of the ruling lineage; the other was in Chinese. Both commemorated the long, powerful line of Né (or Yi) native chieftains to which Lady Qu was heir. Yet they gave contradictory accounts of the forms of chiefly succession, sources of political authority, and geo…
Rewriting Bondage
The article examines legal plaints authored by the household slaves, bondsmen, bonded tenants, concubine, wife, sisters, and affines of the chieftain of a native domain in northern Yunnan Province, China in 1760. These kin and enslaved persons of the chiefly house were struggling over whether a slave baby should become the chieftain of this sprawling realm. The documents were preserved in the hereditary house of the native chieftain along with so…
Bodies Real and Virtual
In 1934, during twenty-eight years of wandering west China, the American botanist Joseph Francis Charles Rock made a brief trip to England. He clipped the obituary of an old friend from the Times and pasted it in his diary. On the facing page, he pasted a photograph two decades old, and wrote this caption:J. F. Rock (standing) with his older friend Fred Muir, Entomologist at the Haw[aii] Sugar Planter's Exp[eriment] Sta[tion], Honolulu. Photograp…
Popular Religion in China
Popular Religion in China: The Imperial Metaphor. Stephan Feuchtwang. Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 2001. 283 pp
Spectral Subversions
In much of rural China, memories of past violence are crucial to people's sense of their own relation to distant centers of state power. In particular, memories of death from hunger during the Great Leap famine (1958–61)1 In the famine that followed the Great Leap Forward, twenty to thirty million people died of hunger-related causes. The famine is usually attributed to overprocurement, bad harvests, disastrous agricultural policies, chaotic tran…
Procreative Metaphor and Productive Unity in an Yi Headmanship
Pendant les annees 1990, les residents d'une communaute montagnarde en Chine du Sud-Ouest initierent des discours officiels a propos de leur nationalite. Ils affirmaient qu'ils avaient autrefois possede une chefferie rotative, une institution autrefois largement repandue dans les regions a minorite Yi de la province de Yunnan. Dans la memoire des paysans Yi (ou Lolop'o), cette institution protegeait leur communaute des exces les moins previsibles…
Money, the Mountain, and State Power in a Naxi Village
This a study of daily life in Yulong, a Naxi village, and the nearby market town of Lijiang in northern Yunnan Province.' It is also a response to recent calls to put time and space at the center of social analysis (Giddens, 1984; Harvey, 1989). It concentrates on space, taking its production and manipulation in Lijiang county as fundamental to the daily experience of such varied phenomena as money, reciprocity, the power of the state, and the ne…
The Poetics of Grief and the Price of Hemp in Southwest China
One bright winter afternoon in 1992, in the mountains of Yunnan Province, China, Li Yong told me a story. Li Yong and I were crowded into a courtyard in his largely Yi (or Lòlop'ò) village, at a mortuary ritual for one of his affines. In the courtyard's center, where the corpse had lain in its coffin seven days before, a crude trough had been scratched into the earth, with a shallow hole at the end where the corpse's mouth had been. The dead woma…
Procreative Metaphor and Productive Unity in an Yi Headmanship
Pendant les annees 1990, les residents d'une communaute montagnarde en Chine du Sud-Ouest initierent des discours officiels a propos de leur nationalite. Ils affirmaient qu'ils avaient autrefois possede une chefferie rotative, une institution autrefois largement repandue dans les regions a minorite Yi de la province de Yunnan. Dans la memoire des paysans Yi (ou Lolop'o), cette institution protegeait leur communaute des exces les moins previsibles…
A Carceral Regime
Spectral Subversions
In much of rural China, memories of past violence are crucial to people's sense of their own relation to distant centers of state power. In particular, memories of death from hunger during the Great Leap famine (1958–61)1 In the famine that followed the Great Leap Forward, twenty to thirty million people died of hunger-related causes. The famine is usually attributed to overprocurement, bad harvests, disastrous agricultural policies, chaotic tran…
Dancing Fools
In 1987, the Nationalities Commission of Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, established a traditional festival in an outlying district and dubbed it, awkwardly, the Clothing Competition Festival (saizhuangjie). Two years later, the event having proved a success, the commission celebrated it in a magazine article as an exuberant, aesthetically exciting, and politically innocent revival of minority nationality customs
Popular Religion in China
Popular Religion in China: The Imperial Metaphor. Stephan Feuchtwang. Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 2001. 283 pp
The Lapponicum Sea
In his own mission to versify the planet, or at least an exemplary portion of it, Captain Francis Kingdon-Ward (1885-1958) returned repeatedly, even obsessively, to certain places on the alpine plateaus of Northwest Yunnan and Southeast Tibet, where the vegetation, refracted through the Aleph of what I shall argue was a deliberate, laborious, and disciplined optical practice, became liquid, a sea
Bodies Real and Virtual
In 1934, during twenty-eight years of wandering west China, the American botanist Joseph Francis Charles Rock made a brief trip to England. He clipped the obituary of an old friend from the Times and pasted it in his diary. On the facing page, he pasted a photograph two decades old, and wrote this caption:J. F. Rock (standing) with his older friend Fred Muir, Entomologist at the Haw[aii] Sugar Planter's Exp[eriment] Sta[tion], Honolulu. Photograp…
Corpse, Stone, Door, Text
Using tombstones as ethnographic sources, this article examines the introduction of writing into the field of death ritual in an Yi community in Yunnan Province, China. Most Tibeto-Burman-speaking peoples in Southwest China abandoned cremation in favor of burial in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, following a loss of political autonomy and a massive influx of immigrants from the interior. Inscriptions on stones, erected over buried corpse…
Cats give funerals to rats
This article compares funeral laments in a Tibeto-Burman-speaking community in Yunnan, China, from two periods: the early 1990s, after ritual revitalization was thoroughly underway, and 2011, after this community had come into more intimate contact with the modernity-obsessed cultures of urban and semi-urban China. Laments fashion grief in a public setting by conceptualizing the dead and their relations with the living in vivid poetic language. L…
Songs for Dead Parents
Soul Work
Chapter 7 analyzes the second of three parts of a speech to the dead. The songs of this part fashion immaterial bodies for the dead, their intensive bodies. The songs are parallel to each other in in series along two axes, which intersect in rows (or tə̠) and columns (or je). The simple progression of series examined in Chapter 6 evolves here into a structure of many folds or planes along three dimensions, traversed by orthogonal lines of force. …
Epilogue
Making the Dead Modern
Chapter 4 compares funeral laments in Júzò, a Tibeto-Burman-speaking community in Yunnan Province, from two periods: the early 1990s, after ritual revitalization was thoroughly underway, and 2011, after this community had come into more intimate contact with the modernity-obsessed cultures of urban and semi-urban China. Laments fashion grief in a public setting by conceptualizing the dead and their relations with the living in vivid poetic langua…
Playing with Corpses
This chapter examines the processes of sacrifice and exchange in a Lòlop’ò (or Yi) community in Yunnan Province in two major funeral rituals. These processes wrap a dead body in ideal images of social relations. These images accumulate into a whole, the social world seen from the perspective of a dead couple: the perfected image of the relations that composed that couple in life. From the perspective of the living person, work for the dead create…
Corpse, Stone, Door, Text
This chapter uses tombstones as ethnographic sources to examine the introduction of Chinese-language writing into the field of death. Most Tibeto-Burman-speaking peoples in Southwest China abandoned cremation in favor of burial the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, following a loss of political autonomy and a massive influx of immigrants from the interior. Inscriptions on stones, erected over buried corpses, shifted textual agency from skilled…
Body Work
The third part of a speech to the dead focuses on fashioning material bodies for the dead, their extensive bodies. The songs describe two such bodies: an ancestral effigy given a home in a descendant’s house and a great effigy constructed as these songs were being performed. These songs trace a journey from intensive body to extensive body. The journey takes the form of a series: loss ⇒ search ⇒ encounter ⇒ assembly ⇒ destruction. This chapter al…
Songs for Dead Parents
This chapter introduces two long speeches to the dead, performed at two funeral ceremonies abandoned in the early socialist era. These speeches were said to contain 72 “songs” and to take eight hours to perform. They were said to explain the origins of the world, of all the beasts, birds and insects, and of every kind of invisible beings, and to contain all the secrets of life and death. The speeches were suppressed after 1958, and the ritualists…
A Life, a Soul, a Body
Work on the dead in this Lòlop'ò (or Yi) community takes the form of making them material and immaterial. Social personhood is mutual entanglement through shared substance; dead persons are subjected to a long labor of disentanglement. Through work on the dead, people assess social relations and envision the cosmological foundations of the social world. This chapter focuses on the processes of assembling a fully social body for the dead in the re…
Earth Work
This chapter considers the first of three parts of a speech to the dead performed before the socialist period. The twelve songs in this part of the speech construct a world for the dead person and people that word with living beings. First it fashions sky and earth; then it connects them with a vertical axis. Once earth and sky relate to each other, there can be sacrifice. Once sacrifice is possible, it can be used to bring features of the earth …
Corpses and voices across worlds
Lady Qu's Inscriptions
In 1533, Lady Qu, native prefect of Wuding Prefecture in northern Yunnan, sponsored the inscription of two texts on a cliff face at the center of her domain. One was in Nasu, the language of the ruling lineage; the other was in Chinese. Both commemorated the long, powerful line of Né (or Yi) native chieftains to which Lady Qu was heir. Yet they gave contradictory accounts of the forms of chiefly succession, sources of political authority, and geo…
Rewriting Bondage
The article examines legal plaints authored by the household slaves, bondsmen, bonded tenants, concubine, wife, sisters, and affines of the chieftain of a native domain in northern Yunnan Province, China in 1760. These kin and enslaved persons of the chiefly house were struggling over whether a slave baby should become the chieftain of this sprawling realm. The documents were preserved in the hereditary house of the native chieftain along with so…
Divination and the scapular theory of writing in north Yunnan
This essay explores the Nasu or Né variety of the “Yi” writing system, used in many indigenous communities in southwest China. I argue that Né texts participate in a distinctive form of life for humans, ancestors, and spirits. At the levels of graph, verse, and page, textual practice traverses meaning and image to amplify ritual practices that manage relations between humans and non-humans. This analysis works against the “modernist” sense that N…
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