味道·旧金山

正1849年,当美国北加州发现金矿的消息不胫而走,无数胸怀梦想的人们从世界各地奔赴San Francisco。为区别澳大利亚的新金山,华人将此地命名为"旧金山"。如果说,饮食的传承能够潜移默化地塑造一座城的性格,那么,各国移民为旧金山带来的异域美食加之美国本土佳肴,能让今天的你从酸甜苦辣咸之舌尝五味,体味到旧金山的兼收并蓄,混搭包容。     

旧金山渔人码头 活色生香的海边集市

正有人说,要想游览旧金山就要抛开汽车,健壮的小腿和公共汽车票足矣。这话不假,我在美国旧金山的几天里几乎都是步行,而去的最多的地方就是渔人码头。渔人码头是旧金山的一个著名旅游景点,范围大致包括从旧金山北部水域哥拉德利广场Ghirardelli Square到35号码头一带,许多商场、购物中心和特色餐馆都坐落在这一地区,给游客提供了吃喝玩乐的一条龙服务。渔人码头是旧金山的象征之一,原是意大利渔民聚集的渔港,到了1960年代,由于捕获量减少,逐渐演变成了今天的观光景点。看到这个圆形的大螃蟹广告牌,你就到     

Seeing Green in San Francisco: City as Resource Frontier

The early 21st century witnessed a boom in green building in San Francisco and similar cities. Major downtown property owners and investors retrofitted office towers, commissioned green certification, and critically, explored how greening might pay. Greening initiatives transcend corporate social responsibility: they represent a new attempt to enclose and speculate upon “green” value within the second nature of cities. However, this unconventional resource discovery requires a highly partial view of buildings’ socio‐natural entanglements in and beyond the city. I illuminate these efforts and their obscurities by exploring the experience of an exemplary green building in San Francisco, an office tower that has successively served as a headquarters organizing a vast resource periphery in the American West, a symbol and driver in the transformation of the city's own second nature, a financial “resource” in its own right, and most recently, an asset in an emerging global market for green property.     

旧金山之美

<正>彩虹飞架大洋岸,巨龙衔起两青山;西海波涛连天际,东湾碧水映白帆。红桥出浴晚霞天,轻纱薄雾彩云端;三藩景色多妖娆,金门桥头最好看。如果你还活着,旧金山不会使你厌烦;如果你已经死了,那旧金山会让你再度起死回生。     

Between Mumford And Marx: Anatomising Imperial San Francisco

The practice of restoration ecology (the creation and restoration of ecosystems) has important implications for theorizing nature in the traditions of O'Connor's 'capitalized nature,' Haraway's hybrid socionatures, and other recent work in poststructural approaches to political ecology. The prominent US environmental discourse of 'no net loss of wetlands' has spurred the rapid expansion of restoration practices, which promise to open a new frontier in the commodification and capitalization of nature. Through wetland mitigation and banking, restoration science is representing entire ecosystems as abstract, mobile, and fungible entities; however, a simple reading of a restored landscape as fully capitalized is unsatisfactory. Close attention to the wetland commodification process reveals two important points: 1) the commodification and capitalization of nature is never automatic; rather, the crucial steps of abstraction and valuation are composed of negotiations between and within differentiated segments of the state and civil society, in which there are many spaces for resistance; and 2) the materiality of restoration sites provided important challenges to the commodification process, which are not contemplated within critical approaches to nature as currently constituted. The transformation of restoration sites into sites of commodity provision is incomplete at best. A major challenge for poststructural political ecology will be to specify ecological phenomena and their important role in the social construction of material environments, without falling into an ontological commitment to the primacy of ecological data.     

Embodying Place: Pathologizing Chinese and Chinatown in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco

This paper argues for uniting disease with body theories in investigations of power relations and the construction of race. It examines this alliance through the case studies of smallpox and syphilis in nineteenth century San Francisco. In locating epidemics inside the Chinese community and by reproducing Chinese bodies as intrinsically diseased, medical theories explaining smallpox and syphilis succeeded in shifting dominant constructions of race from different to pathological. But the process of body production and the role of disease in it cannot be divorced from a simultaneous analysis of the production of place. The configuration of Chinatown's streets and alleyways, perceptions of filth and crowding, and the bodies resident within Chinatown were simultaneously pathologized in a process that exemplifies the need for a better integration of body theories with theories of the social production of place.     

Experiencing refugees: A review essay

MacDonald, Jeffery L. and Amy Zaharlick, eds. Selected Papers on Refugee Issues: III. Arlington, VA: Committee on Refugee Issues, General Anthropological Division, American Anthropological Association, 1994. ii +188 pp. $10.00 paper ($8.00 for AAA Members).

Donnelly, Nancy D. Changing Lives of Refugee Hmong Women. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 1994. viii + 224 pp. including maps, figures, tables, photographs, notes, references, and index. $30.00 cloth.     

From collinearity to structure: San Francisco and Pittsburgh, 1860

The author argues that giving a name to any period of history is a complicated process for historians, requiring careful consideration of many factors. Applying the extensive presence and use of computers as an example of the process at work, he suggests that it may be too early to name our time the information age.