Collective Witnessing
Collective Witnessing
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集体见证
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2003
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Robert Jarvenpa
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作者：
Robert Jarvenpa
美国农村的房地产拍卖代表了市场资本主义和当地企业家仪式之间令人信服的相互作用。拍卖的运作是将二手商品转化为商品。然而，它们也通过社会建构的仪式，在情感上和戏剧性地“感动”人们，在这些仪式中，知识渊博的专家将商品转化为贵重物品，反过来，将这些贵重物品的流通赋予深刻的个人、历史和地理意义。公众对这种流通的集体见证是拍卖精神的核心，体现了美国消费文化中无处不在的创造性和象征性。这些问题是解决的案例材料，从最近积极参与民族志研究的拍卖和古董贸易在纽约州北部。
Rural American estate auctions represent a compelling interplay of market capitalism and local ceremonies of entrepreneurship. Auctions operate to move used goods, converting them into commodities. Yet they also “move” people, emotionally and dramaturgically, via socially constructed ceremonies in which knowledgeable specialists transform commodities into valuables and, in turn, invest the circulation of these valuables with profound personal, historical, and geographical meanings. The public, collective witnessing of this circulation lies at the heart of auction ethos, exemplifying the creative and symbolically charged nature of a ubiquitous facet of American consumer culture. These issues are addressed with case materials from recent active participation ethnographic research on the auction and antiques trade in upstate New York.