商品交换的文化秩序——以广西临江镇“四月初九”事件为例

Cultural Order of Commodity Exchanges:A Case Study of “April 9” Incident in Guangxi Linjiang

对发生在广西临江镇的“四月初九”事件进行了考察,认为尽管从表象上看这是一起由政治斗争引发的社会事件,但实质上却是以互酬为主导的农耕社会的社会整合模式与利润至上的商业社会的商品交换规则,在磨合过程中所爆发出来的社会整合模式之间的冲突,是临江周边村寨壮族人“有福同享”的财富观与临江人“独善其身”的财富观持久冲突的一种表现。据此认为,商品交换不仅是一个商品的流通过程,它同时还是一个社会关系的再生产过程,不同群体对于商品交换的意义秩序的理解和社会实践建构了它的现实内涵。

This paper investigates into the ＂April 9＂ Incident in Linjiang town in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and believes that this social event seemingly caused by political struggle was virtually a conflict resuhing from the friction between the agricultural society led by reciprocity and the commercial society based on profits and rules of market exchanges. It＇s a conflict of the outlook of wealth of the people in neighboring villages and that of the Linjiang people. On this basis, this paper argues that commodity exchange is not only a process of circulation but also a reproduction of social relations, and that the concepts of goods of different ethnic groups may constitute its substantial contents.