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主题：Nightmare Egalitarianism: Commensuration, Autonomy and Imagination

时间：2025年5月20日（周二）14:00-16:00

地点：浙江大学紫金港西区成均苑8幢1127

简介：Egalitarianism often is a nightmare, many anthropologists have noted. The mechanisms that guarantee equality can include everything from ridicule to envy, sorcery, and physical violence. If the bourgeois needs to ‘keep up with the Joneses’, the peasant envies the ‘limited good’ of the neighbours. Equality means entirely different things in each setting, but drawing equivalences is negatively connotated in all – and egalitarianism here and elsewhere shares a special relation with violence. This collaborative project aims at a framework to understand different forms of egalitarianism through the forces of commensuration they are based on, and the forms of autonomy and imagination they allow. I’ll introduce the core concepts as outlined in collaboration with Natalia Buitron (Cambridge) and Florian Muhlfried (Tiblisi), and then case studies from the Wa State, Malawi (Farrell), India (Wilby), and Archaeology (Hadad).

主讲人：Hans Steinmüller 伦敦政治经济学院人类学系副教授

Hans Steinmüller is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. He has conducted fieldwork in Hubei Province (central China) and in the Wa hills of the China-Myanmar border, and writes about rural China, sovereignty, and creativity in history. He is the author of Communities of Complicity (Berghahn 2013), and co-editor of Irony, Cynicism and the China State (Routledge 2016), and ‘Governing Opacity’ (Ethnos 2023).

评议人：沈阳 浙江大学社会学系新百人计划研究员

波士顿大学人类学博士，现任浙江大学社会学系“新百人计划”研究员。研究领域主要包括宗教人类学（含世俗主义相关问题）、仪式与社会理论、知识论等。其研究发表在Material Religion, Journal of Chinese Humanities等杂志上。 

主持人：吴迪 浙江大学社会学系新百人计划研究员

伦敦政治经济学院人类学博士。个人研究兴趣及研究领域：道德人类学，情动人类学，符号与互动，劳工，中非交往，移民与全球流动。主要发表情况包括专著Affective Encounters (LSE Social Anthropology Monograph)，译著《以德为体》，编著 China as Context (Manchester University Press)等。