A view from the other side: the place of spirits in the Tongan social field.
A view from the other side: the place of spirits in the Tongan social field.
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另一个角度：神灵在汤加社会领域的地位。
DOI：
10.1023/a:1023678426232
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2003
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McGrath,BarbaraBurns
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作者：
McGrath,BarbaraBurns
烈酒是汤加王国日常生活的一部分。本研究通过分析有关灵魂和死亡的话语，并考察与灵魂和死亡相关的当代文化实践的两个例子，探讨了对超自然的信仰。身体及其文化建构以及作为汤加群岛景观的第三空间的人类学概念，从身体和感知中出现，为这项调查提供了框架。研究结果表明，烈酒参与汤加社会的自然秩序，因此有助于在面对不确定的社会变革和流行但有争议的民主运动时维持文化认同。精神也起到了表征系统的作用，反映了理想自我的形象，这是不断协商的东西。祖先的灵魂与他们活着的后代之间的相遇表明了对死亡的不安接受以及对其不可避免性的讽刺感。
Spirits are part of everyday life in the Kingdom of Tonga. This study explores beliefs about the supernatural by analyzing discourse on spirits and death and by examining two examples of contemporary cultural practice related to spirits and death. The anthropological concepts of the body and its cultural construction and of thirdspace as a landscape of the Tongan islands that emerges out of the physical and the perceived provide the framework for this investigation. Research findings suggest that spirits participate in the natural order of Tongan society and thus serve to help maintain cultural identity in the face of uncertain social change and a popular but contested prodemocracy movement. Spirits also function as a system of representation, mirroring an image of an ideal self, something that is continually under negotiation. Encounters between spirits of ancestors and their living descendants suggest an uneasy acceptance of death and a sense of irony about its inevitability.