Sonja Boon’s auto-ethnography takes readers through a journey that is transparent about the perils, warmth, and unanswered questions that constitute the research process regarding her family heritage, lineage and identity. Through a reflection on the archival process undertaken in piecing together her family’s story, Boon demonstrates the crucial place that field research holds in unraveling histories of displacement and mobility, memory and identity. Striking an appealing conversation between fact and feeling, the author demonstrates how belonging is “fragile fragmented and multiple.” “Where are you from,” this book reveals, cannot be a simple matter of facts tucked into institutional archives, but fundamentally a lived experience that can never yield a full, complete story With this positioning, the author offers a meditation on the afterlives of complex histories of migration, colonialism, and violence.

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书评：海洋记住的东西：寻找归属感和家园

桑娅·文恩（Sonja Boon）的自动人种志系统带给读者的旅程是透明的，关于危险，温暖和未解决的问题，这些问题构成了有关她的家庭传承，血统和身份的研究过程。通过反思将家人的故事拼凑起来的档案过程，布恩证明了实地研究在揭示流离失所，迁徙，记忆和身份的历史中所起的关键作用。通过在事实和感觉之间进行有趣的对话，作者证明了归属感是“脆弱的零散和多重的”。这本书揭示了“您来自何方”，这绝不是简单的事实，它只是藏在机构档案中的事实，而是从根本上讲的一种活生生的经历，永远无法产生完整，完整的故事。