專書簡介:這是一本關於茶、土地與人的故事;從雲南普洱茶產業的發展軌跡裡,觀照中國西南邊疆改變中之自然與社會的關係。
以文化地理學和政治生態學為研究取徑,地理系洪伯邑老師的民族誌書寫,帶領讀者到雲南普洱市靠近緬甸邊境的景邁山上,探看當地的古茶林與錯落茶林中的少數民族布朗族村寨,並從布朗村民的採摘、製作到販售茶葉的過程中,理解少數民族與茶樹、茶商和官員的日常互動如何型塑了邊疆的地景樣貌與人地關係。
在這些故事的背後,是對「邊疆」意義的重新認定,也是本書最核心的論點:邊疆地景是兩難困境的體現(frontier as dilemmas),讓地景中的人事物不斷游移在「傳統」與「現代」、「國家」與「市場」、「國境邊陲」與「連結空間」、「原始自然」與「文明開發」之間。本書已於2015年8月由人文社會科學主要出版社Palgrave Macmillan出版,同時在亞馬遜網路書店(amazon.com)也找得到。
In this book, Po-Yi Hung uses tea production as a lens to investigate the tension between nature and society under the market economy in frontier China. By focusing on the landscape of the 'ancient tea forest' (guchalin), this book aims to understand the interactions among tea trees, entrepreneurs, the state, and the Bulang, an ethnic minority population. Intensive ethnographic research conducted by the author examines local Bulang villagers' everyday lives as entrepreneurs in the market economy at a time of changing moralities and cultural renovations. The author explores the dilemmas that arise in this unique region between tradition and modernity, territorial margin and connected space, and nature and development.
將於2015年8月由人文社會科學主要出版社Palgrave Macmillan出版。