Brother’s keeper? Siblingship, overseas migration, and centripetal ethnography in a Philippine village
Brother’s keeper? Siblingship, overseas migration, and centripetal ethnography in a Philippine village
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兄弟的守护者、海外移民和菲律宾村庄的向心民族志？
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2013
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F. Aguilar
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F. Aguilar
西方关于“核心家庭”的观点不能解释海外菲律宾移民对“大家庭”的承诺，因为它缺乏个人对大家庭的根深蒂固。然而，它支撑了当今许多定性领域的方法。为了解释亲属群体之间的相互依赖和紧张关系，本文提出了从“家庭社会学”到“亲属文化”的理论基础的转变。要了解移民在目的地的文化，还必须将原籍地的文化放在首位，这一方法论上的转变被称为“向心民族志”。这种视角和方法的双重和连结的转变被应用于研究帕莱索，这是菲律宾的一个农村-高地村庄，20世纪70年代开始在那里进行海外移民。兄弟姐妹关系中自治和团结的相互作用通过关注村里的房子和向外迁移的海外背景来说明。
The Western optic of ‘nuclear family’, which is devoid of the individual’s embeddedness in the larger kin group, fails to explain the commitment of overseas Filipino migrants to the ‘extended family’. Yet, it underpins much of the qualitative field methods today. To explain interdependencies as well as tensions within kin groups, this article proposes a shift in theoretical ground from a ‘sociology of the family’ to ‘cultures of relatedness’. To understand migrants’ culture in the destination also necessitates that culture in the origin be given primacy, in a methodological shift referred to as ‘centripetal ethnography’. This dual and conjoined shift in perspective and method is applied in studying Paraiso, a rural-upland village in the Philippines, where overseas migration commenced in the 1970s. The interplay of autonomy and solidarity in siblingship is illumined by focusing on the house as practised in the village and, moving outward, in the overseas context.