Paper, Power, and Procedure: Reflections on Amazonian Appropriations of Bureaucracy and Documents
Paper, Power, and Procedure: Reflections on Amazonian Appropriations of Bureaucracy and Documents
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纸张、权力和程序：对亚马逊挪用官僚机构和文件的反思
DOI：
10.1111/jlca.12237
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发表时间：
2016
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通讯作者：
Harry Walker
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作者：
Olivier Allard;Harry Walker
今天，亚马逊人民对官僚机构和文件的创造性和不断扩大的占用超越了口头与识字、国家与非国家权力、统治与反抗之间的简单二分法。这里收集的论文强调了这些参与的具体形式，以及它们在地方政治进程中扮演关键角色的方式，为从国家的日常运作到语言和物质性的地方理论等问题提供了新的视角。在这篇介绍性文章中，我们特别注意文件作为促进新形式交流的媒介的重要性；官僚主义魔法和仪式的盛行；以及地区官僚主义和记录过程与财富和暴力紧密相连的方式。
The creative and ever-expanding appropriations of bureaucracy and documents on the part of Amazonian peoples today transcend simple dichotomies between orality and literacy, state and non-state power, and domination and resistance. The papers collected here highlight the specific forms taken by such engagements and the ways in which they assume a key role in local political processes, offering new perspectives on issues ranging from the everyday workings of the state to local theories of language and materiality. In this introductory essay we draw particular attention to the importance of documents as mediators which facilitate new forms of communication; to the prevalence of bureaucratic magic and ritual; and to the ways in which regional bureaucratic and documentary processes are closely linked to both wealth and violence.