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{"title":"Modern Construction of Traditional Ethnic Festival: Taking “March 3rd” of the She People in Jingning as an Example","authors":"Shiyao Liu, Xiaomin Liu","doi":"10.33423/ijba.v12i2.5683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33423/ijba.v12i2.5683","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the new classical “Structure-Function Theory” this article, by putting a traditional ethnic festival under the background of a modern society investigate how a traditional ethnic festival, as a kind of “structural heritage”, can come to an adjustment with the modern society in the process of integration and development of tourism, and how it becomes an important embodiment of development of tourism and, at the same time, optimize its tourist economic structure. The research shows that, the modern structure of the traditional ethnic festival proves that, though an ethnic festival might be a most stable content in the ethnic culture, it can also be adjusted and changed in order to adapt itself to the new trend of society and economy, and thus it can produce a structure and function in line with that modern society. As for the modern construction of the traditional ethnic festival itself, it is, on the one hand, built on a gain of some modern characteristics during the developing process of the time and society on the basis of the internal changes (including a transforming of function and expanding of structure);on the other hand, the successful realization of a modern construction of the traditional ethnic festival cannot be fostered without the support and promotion of external forces including “umbrella” power with the government as the main body and “honeycomb power” with enterprise and people as a major body too.","PeriodicalId":219027,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127111339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In the Face of Instability and Marginalisation in a Gendered Craft Industry: Self-Realisation and Resilience of the Self-employed Craftswomen in Jingdezhen, China","authors":"Ruoxi Liu","doi":"10.33423/ijba.v12i2.5687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33423/ijba.v12i2.5687","url":null,"abstract":"Through a four-month ethnographic study from May to August 2020 in Jingdezhen, the Chinese capital of porcelain, I investigated the self-employment practice and work-and-lifestyles of the female craft workers. Despite the increasing presence of female self-employed craft workers in Jingdezhen in the recent decade, its local ceramic labor distribution continues to be gendered. This study incorporated a variety of qualitative methods such as in-depth interviews, participant observations and diary method. Despite the self-realization of female craft workers in Jingdezhen through self-employed craft work, I firstly highlight the instability embedded in their craft work, marginalization of craftswomen’s roles and works and self-doubtfulness on creativity. I argue that the frequent critiques of craftswomen’s ceramic works have generalized them as being domestic and feminine and ignored their diverse skills, aesthetics, and artistic dispositions. I also suggest that such generalization has further marginalized ‘femininity’ in ceramic cultures and productions. Secondly, I recognize the difficulties that the craftswomen have encountered in non-workplaces and the pressures from family and social expectations and argue that the allegedly ‘work and life balance challenge’ set for women overshadows their compromises and sacrifices in their craft journey. By showcasing my interlocutors’ ‘minor’ feelings and reflecting on my own fieldwork experience, I reveal a gendered power relationship in personal interactions at an everyday level continued to exist in Jingdezhen’s craft world. I finally argue that while self-employment and craft are empowering practices and have offered the craftswomen opportunities to fulfill their potentials, independent craftswomen in Jingdezhen still suffer from instability, marginalization, societal expectations, daily disrespect in the local male-dominated industrial context. Meanwhile, I showcase their resilience against this background by demonstrating how they negotiate these difficulties and pressures.","PeriodicalId":219027,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130343802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effectively Dealing With Indigenous Distinctiveness: Lessons From the United States","authors":"","doi":"10.33423/ijba.v12i2.5689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33423/ijba.v12i2.5689","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":219027,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126752452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Neo-classical “Structural Functionalism” on the “Traditional-Modern” Transformation of Literature and Art Cultural Heritage","authors":"Liu Lijun, Jijiao Zhang","doi":"10.33423/ijba.v12i2.5682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33423/ijba.v12i2.5682","url":null,"abstract":"As inherited experience and wisdom from traditional culture, cultural heritage is an important part of modern social life. Using the Neo-classical “Structural Functionalism”, this paper analyzes the structural and functional changes in Literature and Art Cultural Heritage (LACH) 1 in the transition from tradition to modern times. In a modern society, there are multiple inheritance forms of LACH, such as Urban Revitalization, Characteristic Towns, cultural and tourism-related performing arts, festival activities and temple fairs, etc. They exhibit diverse values with all kinds of structure-function, such as embodied in original, associated or fragmented forms.","PeriodicalId":219027,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124977716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Politics, Trade and the Sale of Indian Tea to Tibet: Failure of Dumping of Indian Tea to Tibet During the Late Qing and Republican China Period","authors":"Zhiyang Liu","doi":"10.33423/ijba.v12i2.5686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33423/ijba.v12i2.5686","url":null,"abstract":"Since the late Qing dynasty, the sales volume of Sichuan brick tea in Tibet kept dropping, resulting in a sales crisis for it in Tibet a fear of the occupation of the Tibetan tea market by Indian tea due to its convenient traffic and low prices. During the dull sales of Sichuan brick tea in Tibet, Britain took various means, and even used military force to make Indian tea enter Tibet, whereas Indian tea was not sold in Tibet on a large scale, but only sporadically. The position of Chinese tea in Tibet was never shaken as was supposed by some at the time or later. The attempt for Indian tea on which Britain placed high hopes to be sold in Tibet was frustrated by the conflict between the central government and the Tibetan local government, the longstanding preference of the Tibetans for Sichuan brick tea, etc. The attempt of the British colonists to dump Indian tea into Tibet failed. In the meantime, with sea transport and price advantages, Yunnan tea made up for the reduction of Sichuan brick tea, and took up half of the Tibetan tea market.","PeriodicalId":219027,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128814756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Job Titles and Job Satisfaction: An Ethno-Phenomenological Inquiry with Reference to a Transportation and Utility Firm","authors":"","doi":"10.33423/ijba.v12i1.5259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33423/ijba.v12i1.5259","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":219027,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128984327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A New Approach to Grass-Roots Governance: A Case Study of Mass Basketball Games in Tibetan-Communities in Yunnan, Sichuan, Qinghai and Gansu Provinces of China","authors":"","doi":"10.33423/ijba.v12i1.5260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33423/ijba.v12i1.5260","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":219027,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114931045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Fruits of Business Anthropology in China (Book Review)","authors":"","doi":"10.33423/ijba.v12i1.5261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33423/ijba.v12i1.5261","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":219027,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115284549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Interphase (Xiangji) Economic Principle and Targeted Poverty Alleviation: Strategic Breakthrough of Non-economic Factors","authors":"","doi":"10.33423/ijba.v12i1.5257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33423/ijba.v12i1.5257","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":219027,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126038135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Traditional to Modern” Transformation of Beijing's Urban and Historically Conserved Areas—Based on Neoclassical \"Structural-Functionalism\"","authors":"","doi":"10.33423/ijba.v12i1.5258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33423/ijba.v12i1.5258","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":219027,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129315197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}