第一屆李亦園院士紀念講座

講者：

Paul Steven Sangren 桑高仁（美國康乃爾大學胡適名譽教授）

講題：

SPATIAL IMAGINATION: Skinnerian “Human Interaction Systems” and the Roles of Spatial Imagery and “Subjection” in Chinese Rituals

摘要：

G. William Skinner’s complex apprehension of China as a nested hierarchy of regional (“human interaction”) systems revolutionized subsequent understanding of what “China” is in temporal and spatial terms.  The prodigious spatial imagination embodied in Skinner’s project develops from an explicitly objectivist-cum-behavioralist perspective.  For the most part, Skinner argued that emic perceptions – for example, of local identities, the structure of imperial bureaucracy, pathways for social and economic mobility – reflect these “natural systems” (i.e., emergent mainly on the basis of rational economic decisions, on the one hand, and the logic of political control and extraction, on the other).  Spatial imagination figures importantly, but very differently, in the structure of ritual production of subjectivities (in the sense, broadly speaking, developed in Judith Butler’s Psychic Life of Power).  Based on analysis of a variety of ritualized contexts (individual worship, domestic architecture, territorial-cult celebrations, pilgrimages, imperial rituals), I propose that Skinner’s framework nonetheless possesses potential insights regarding how emic spatial imagination figures in the production of these subjectivities.  This juxtaposition of emic and etic vantages, on the one hand, troubles the distinction between ideology and social reality, but on the other hints at an encompassing theoretical synthesis.

報名資訊：

日    期：2018年11月7日（週三）上午10:00 ~ 12:00

地    點：中央研究院民族學研究所第一會議室

主辦單位：中央研究院民族學研究所

報名期間：2018年10月8日~10月26日

錄取與否通知：2018年10月31日前

報名網站：www.ioe.sinica.edu.tw

聯 絡 人：林音秀小姐 02-2652-3484 world66@gate.sinica.edu.tw／林芬安小姐 02-2652-3303 falin@gate.sinica.edu.tw