Claiming Homes - Confronting Domicide in Rural China

Chinese citizens make themselves at home despite economic transformation, political rupture, and domestic dislocation in the contemporary countryside. By mobilizing labor and kinship to make claims over homes, people, and things, rural residents withstand devaluation and confront dispossession. As a particular configuration of red capitalism and socialist sovereignty takes root, this process challenges the relationship between the politics of place and the location of class in China and beyond.

List of contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Notes on Transliteration

Introduction: The Countryside as Home

PART I: HISTORY, POLITICS, PLACE

Chapter 1. The Big Village

Chapter 2. Genealogies Revealed and Concealed

PART II: GENDER, GENERATION, KINSHIP

Chapter 3. Reproducing Kin across Generational Divides

Chapter 4. Gendered Aspirations in Marriage

PART III: LABOR, LOCATION, PRECARITY

Chapter 5. Fields, Food, and the Market

Chapter 6. Dangerous Domesticities

Conclusion: Claims, Belonging, and the Home

Postscript: Home as Workplace

References

Index

About the author

Charlotte Bruckermann currently works in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. Her publications include a book co-written with Stephan Feuchtwang The Anthropology of China: China as Ethnographic and Theoretical Critique (2016, Imperial College Press), and various articles and chapters on environment, kinship, housing, care, morality, and ritual.

Product details

• Authors: Charlotte Bruckermann, Bruckermann Charlotte
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781789203578
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-357-8
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Dislocations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Rural communities, Social and cultural anthropology, Shanxi