Widmer Alexandra
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstr 22, Berlin, 14195 Germany.
Anthropol Med. 2013;20(2):142-59. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2013.805299.
This paper deals with the simultaneous mainstreaming and diversification of ni-Vanuatu social categories associated with the ways in which population growth is understood as a possible crisis in both demographic knowledge and everyday ni-Vanuatu knowledge. The author is interested in understanding the downplaying but primarily the amplification of difference with respect to place, generation and gender identities. The relationship between reproduction, social reproduction and the multiple meanings of modernity is at issue. In the expert knowledge of demography that proffers advice for the ni-Vanuatu state, it is the lack of modern development - in the form of adequate biomedical birth control, western education, and the equality of women - that is the implicit cause of population growth. Yet, many ni-Vanuatu see population growth as tied to the troubles that arise from the dilution of traditional social forms: there is too much modernity. In both demographic and ni-Vanuatu everyday narrations of the potential population crisis, diversification and mainstreaming take place and vulnerabilities are produced.
本文探讨了瓦努阿图社会类别同时主流化和多样化的问题，这与人口增长在人口学知识和瓦努阿图民众日常认知中被视为潜在危机的方式相关。作者感兴趣的是理解对地域、代际和性别认同差异的淡化，但主要是放大。生殖、社会再生产与现代性的多重含义之间的关系是核心问题。在为瓦努阿图政府提供建议的人口学专家知识中，缺乏现代发展——以适当的生物医学节育手段、西方教育和妇女平等的形式——被视为人口增长的隐性原因。然而，许多瓦努阿图人认为人口增长与传统社会形式稀释所引发的问题相关：现代性过多了。在人口学和瓦努阿图民众对潜在人口危机的日常叙述中，多样化和主流化都在发生，并且产生了脆弱性。
