消费
饱食穷民 豆瓣 Goodreads
飽食窮民
8.1 (145 个评分) 作者: [日] 斋藤茂男 译者: 王晓夏 浙江人民出版社 2020 - 1
泡沫经济年代的日本社会,宛如梦幻泡影一样变化无常,又像断梗浮萍一样飘忽不定,到处充斥着不安的色彩。
被眼前的欲望迷住双眼而深陷连环债务不能自拔的他们,
在IT革命的洗礼中被机器同化的他们,
在食欲和失衡的内心世界间痛苦挣扎的他们……
每个人都在成功强迫症的驱动下随波逐流、筋疲力尽。我们究竟想要做什么?想要度过怎样的人生?漂泊于饱食时代的新穷困人群,将会走向何方?
随着经济的高度发展,日本终于走出了战后在生存线上挣扎的饥荒时代,然而生活水平的提高并没有减少人们的焦虑和不安全感,仅仅是从“贫困中的贫困”转变为“繁荣中的贫困”。在这个不再为温饱发愁的新时代依然陷入穷忙和债务缠身的极限状态的人们,被称为“饱食穷民”。他们既是支撑日本经济发展的“企业战士”,又是这个残酷竞争社会的牺牲品。
本书记载了这样一群“饱食穷民”的故事,他们中有因自我迷失而参加心理咨询团体寻求慰籍的OL、难耐超负荷的工作节奏而人间蒸发的金融从业者、背负贫穷家庭期待而在东京打拼的保险销售者、为了不落人后的生活水准被贷款消费逼入窘境的夫妇……一边是超饱和、让人身心临近崩溃的工作状态,一边是同侪压力和鼓吹消费的宣传导向下的过度购买,表面的经济繁荣背后日本人的阴影,害怕竞争失败而跌入底层的恐慌和不安全感,埋藏在每个“饱食穷民”心中,也预告了即将到来的泡沫经济崩溃的危机。
本书是日本著名记者斋藤茂男的代表作,被认为是描写日本泡沫经济时代社会问题的经典之作。
A Theory of Shopping 豆瓣
作者: Daniel Miller Polity Press 1998 - 4
A Theory of Shopping offers a highly original perspective on one of our most basic everyday activities - shopping. We commonly assume that shopping is primarily concerned with individuals and materialism. But Miller rejects this assumption and follows the surprising route of analysing shopping by means of an analogy with anthropological studies of sacrificial ritual. He argues that the act of purchasing goods is almost always linked to other social relations, and most especially those based on love and care.

The ethnographic sections of the book are based on a year's study of shopping on a street in North London. This provides the basis for a sensitive description of the issues the shopper confronts when making decisions as to what to buy. Miller develops a theory to account for these observations, arguing that shopping typically consists of three major stages which reflect the three key stages of many rites of sacrifice. In both shopping and sacrifice the ultimate intention is to constitute others as desiring subjects. Finally the book examines certain historical shifts in both subjects and objects of devotion, in particular, ideals of gender and love.

This treatment of shopping from the perspective of comparative anthropology represents a highly innovative approach to one of the most familiar tasks of our daily lives. Written in a clear and accessible manner, this book will be of interest to students and academics in anthropology, sociology and cultural studies, as well as anybody who wants to consider more deeply the nature of their own everyday activities.
中国城市的消费革命 豆瓣
作者: 卢汉龙 / 戴慧思 译者: 卢汉龙 / 戴慧思 上海社会科学院出版社 2003 - 10
本书是一本以美国学者为主对当代中国的研究论著。在美国学界有十分重要的影响。它以社会调查为基础,对中国城市的消费现象和消费方式变迁进行子社会学分析。它提出的从消费文化的视角来分析,中国现实发展的理论架构具有重要的理论创新意义,为从事理论研究的工作者提供了不可多得的研究范式和理论范本。
研究中国社会中的消费的优秀著作太稀少了。戴慧思和卢汉龙合编的这本《中国城市的消费革命》(上海社会科学院出版社,2003。该书是从英文本翻译过来的)算是我所见到的最好的了。其中最好的几篇是“北京的麦当劳消费”(阎云翔)、“深圳的保龄球时尚”(王甘)、“上海的舞厅调查”(范亚谷)、“婚纱化妆:西安回民坊的婚礼”(马丽斯)。尽管中国的义务教育、医疗保障甚至跟不上很多发展中国家,中国的基尼系数是世界倒数前几位,中国的消费,特别是富人的消费,已同世界接轨。因此中国的消费呈现出最大的荒诞。与此对照,中国职业学者的队伍也愈加庞大,却鲜有对此深入研究的人士。