ANTH 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Inflectional Phrase, Nanny, Mountains May Depart
9 Apr 2018
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Female factory workers: group of women who own super fancy cars. Shan he gu ren - a phrase that came to jia when he visited his aunt in the mountains. Shot in 3 diff frames: 1999, 2014 and 2025, quintessential film of the sixth generation. Consumer capital and social capital: migrants have consumer capital, but not social capital (not part of educated class, yan includes humans as consumable labor. Idea that these baomu kind of sit in this uncomfortable position: they"re desired, china needs migrants to take on certain kinds of jobs, but they"re looked down bc of their suzhi, catachresis - category that"s out of place. From econ disasters to econ miracles: migrants excluded from certain occupations in big cities bc of low suzhi. Zhang li"s work in search of paradise: socialism with capitalist characteristics, hybrid forms of poli econ that combine, market forces, hybrid forms of governmentality, and now letting the housing market float.
