'Showing-Off Aesthetics': Looking Good, Making Relations and 'Being in the World' in the London Akan Diaspora
'Showing-Off Aesthetics': Looking Good, Making Relations and 'Being in the World' in the London Akan Diaspora
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“炫耀美学”：伦敦阿坎侨民的外貌、人际关系和“融入世界”
DOI：
10.1080/00141844.2012.670125
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发表时间：
2013
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影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Fumanti M
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作者：
Fumanti M
对于在伦敦讲阿肯语的加纳人来说，公共活动和成年仪式构成了他们的散居主体性和社会性，重建和加强了散居地和母国之间的物质和象征联系。他们的参与重申了他们在世界上的本体存在，使他们在其他移徙者眼中可见和独特，从而否认了他们的社会边缘地位。这种本体论的存在是通过独特的阿坎美学产生的，这种美学通过语言学术语、谚语、格言和至理名言来实现;在物质方面，通过服装的炫耀以及精致服装和其他实物的使用和展示;在品味方面，通过民族食品的消费;在视觉方面，通过视频和照片的使用。通过借鉴一系列来自伦敦和加纳的民族志例子，本文展示了阿坎移民在伦敦散居地重新确立自己的地位时，话语和材料之间的复杂重叠。
For Akan-speaking Ghanaians in London, public events and rites of passage are constitutive of their diasporic subjectivity and sociality, re-establishing and reinforcing material and symbolic connections within the diaspora and the home country. Their participation reasserts their ontological presence in the world and renders them visible and distinct in the eyes of fellow migrants, thus denying their social marginality. This ontological presence is produced through a uniquely Akan aesthetic, realised in linguistic terms, through proverbs, mottoes and wise sayings; in material terms, through sartorial ostentation and the use and display of elaborate dresses and other material objects; in taste, through the consumption of ethnic food; and in visual terms, through the use of videos and photographs. By drawing on a range of ethnographic examples from London and Ghana, this paper shows the complex overlap between the discursive and the material in the formation of Akan migrants’ aestheticised subjectivity as they reassert their place in the London diaspora.