Living with Bad Surroundings: War, history, and everyday moments in northern Uganda, by Sverker Finnström
Living with Bad Surroundings: War, history, and everyday moments in northern Uganda, by Sverker Finnström
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《生活在恶劣的环境中：乌干达北部的战争、历史和日常生活》作者：Sverker Finnström
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10.1093/afraf/adq027
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发表时间：
2010
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2.8
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M. Wilhelm
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作者：
M. Wilhelm
乌干达北方的冲突和流离失所使阿乔利农村陷入了生存和宇宙论的不确定性，军队和叛乱分子的永久胁迫，来自未定居死者的精神危险，以及疾病或暴力的持续威胁。阿乔利语中的piny marac或“恶劣的环境”（第4页）表达了这种无序的世界。Sverker Finnström将此作为他关于上帝抵抗军（LRA）和乌干达政府之间内战的引人注目的民族志的中心主题。然而，在这种情况下，作者写道，“生活仍在继续”（第14页）。尽管个人和家庭在冲突中的能动性受到限制，但他们“重新配置他们的社会世界”，以科普不确定性。研究的重点是青年的经验，虽然它延伸到更广泛的人口的困境：一个边缘化，政治和发展，在二十年的战争。1997年至2006年期间，实地工作跨越了几次长期访问。这本书是对Finnström 2003年乌普萨拉大学博士论文的一个非常有限的版本的实质性修订。这本书的结构大致是按时间顺序排列的。前两章提供了一个优秀的历史回顾殖民和后殖民北方乌干达。这些章节将受北方冲突影响的最大社区阿乔利人纳入国家组建进程，并解构学术文献和常见定型观念中将阿乔利人视为军事化族裔的观点。然而，在后面的章节中，历史线索在人种志材料的复杂覆盖中有些丢失。
Conflict and displacement in northern Uganda have driven rural Acholi into existential and cosmological uncertainty, perpetual coercion by army and rebels, spiritual peril from the unsettled dead, and the constant threat of illness or violence. This disordered world is expressed in the Acholi phrase piny marac or ‘bad surroundings’(p. 4). Sverker Finnström takes this as the central motif of his compelling ethnography of the civil conflict between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the government of Uganda. In this context, however, writes the author,‘life does go on’(p. 14).In spite of their restricted agency under conflict, individuals and families ‘reconfigure their social worlds’ in order to cope with uncertainty. The research focuses on the experiences of youth, although it extends to the dilemmas of the broader population: one marginalized, politically and developmentally, in the two-decade war. The fieldwork spans several extended visits between 1997 and 2006. The book is a substantive revision of a very limited print of Finnström’s 2003 doctoral thesis from Uppsala University. The structure of the book is broadly chronological. The first two chapters provide an excellent historical review of colonial and post-colonial northern Uganda. These sections situate the Acholi, the largest community affected by the northern conflict, within processes of state formation, and deconstruct the idea of the Acholi as a militarized ethnicity, present in both academic literature and common stereotypes. However, in the later chapters, the historical thread is lost somewhat in the complex overlay of ethnographic material.