Fluctuating formality: homeownership, inheritance, and the official economy in urban South Africa ?
Fluctuating formality: homeownership, inheritance, and the official economy in urban South Africa ?
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波动的形式：南非城市的住房所有权、继承和官方经济？
DOI：
10.1111/1467-9655.13615
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
1.2
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Bolt M
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Bolt M
马林诺夫斯基的遗产之一是对机构不均衡地塑造生活和关系的方式的敏感度。在他的带领下，本文发展了一种研究正规经济的方法，将政治和经济人类学中关于国家和市场基础结构的理论结合起来，加以强化和扩展。它以南非城市为重点，审查了以前被排除在财产权之外的黑人大多数人的财产继承。作为对正规经济的一个视角，它超越了生产，考虑了社会再生产--传递财产--是如何在错综复杂的国家过程中交织的。文章认为，正规经济是通过其剧本的特定表演来支撑的：不同的参与者在自己的项目中将流程的片段联系在一起，几乎没有承诺遵守名义上制造系统的官方逻辑。在国家对遗产的责任扩大的背景下，礼仪的前沿将其波动的特性抛诸脑后：制度表面上连贯的抽象以零碎的方式被赋予力量。
One of Malinowski's legacies was a sensitivity to the ways institutions unevenly shape lives and relationships. Taking his lead, this article develops an approach to the formal economy, combining, sharpening, and extending theories of state and market infrastructures in political and economic anthropology. Focusing on urban South Africa, it examines property inheritance among the black majority previously excluded from property rights. As a lens on the formal economy, this moves beyond production to consider how social reproduction – passing on property – weaves through disjointed state processes. The article argues that the formal economy is sustained by particular performances of its scripts: different actors connect fragments of process in their own projects, with little commitment to the official logics that notionally make systems. In a setting where state responsibility over inheritance has expanded, formality's advancing frontiers throw its fluctuating character into relief: institutions’ apparently coherent abstractions are given force in piecemeal fashion.