时间制度与权力结构:以加德满都泰美尔区为例

Temporal system and power structure:A case study in Thamel of Kathmandu

在全球化的背景下,都市生活中的时间制度显示出层次多元的特征。人们的节日观念受到本族文化的影响,同时通过假期和历法,被统一在全国性的节假日制度中。在兼为游客住宿区和旅游市场的加德满都市泰美尔区,由于游客时间的阈限属性和季节规律,其区内的时间制度呈现出全日无休和全年无休的无序倾向。前述制度既呈现出现代与传统、全球与地方、国家与民族等概念互融共生的一面,又体现了地方社会与外来群体间具有弹性的权力结构。

In the era of globalization,the temporal system of urban life shows multiple features.Usually,an ethnic group’s concept of festivals is influenced by its culture,while it is also confined to the national festival tradition through holidays and calendars.For tourists in Kathmandu,Thamel is both an accommodation-related area and a souvenir marketplace.Due to the liminal and seasonal features of tourists’schedules,the temporal system in Thamel shows a kind of disorder throughout the day and throughout the year,and presents the coexistence and integration of different ideas like modernity and tradition,globalization and localization,state and nation,a mirror of a flexible power structure between the local society and immigrant groups.