物质文化与人类学——英国人类学家迈克·罗兰专访

罗兰教授结合自己的学科背景,以及在非洲和中国所做的田野工作,探讨了如何通过一个特定的实物来探索物的形成、物的历史、物与社会的关系,从而对物质人类学和物质文化,考古学与人类学之间的联系进行深层次探讨。其对如何通过发运用物质文化,以及考古学和人类学的结合来发展历史人类学提出了独到的见解。同时,罗兰教授也对东亚的人类学,尤其是中国人类学的未来赋予了极高的期望,他认为未来人类学的聚焦点将从欧美移到世界其他地方,欧美人类学不再会被认为是人类学的绝对真理,所以通过欧美之外的一种人类学的新思想,新思维方式有助于未来人类学的发展。

Material Culture and Anthropology——An Interview with Anthropologist Michael Rowlands of the University College London

Prof. Michael Rowlands discusses how to use material culture to explore the formation and use of objects,the history of objects,and the relationship between objects and history. He uses examples drawn from his academic background,and his fieldwork done in Africa and China. He further gives an in- depth discussion on the relationship between material culture and anthropology as well as archaeology and anthropology. He proposes specific views on how to develop historical anthropology by using material culture,and the combination of archaeology with anthropology. He states that in the future,the focus of anthropology will shift or move away from America and Europe to the rest of the world,and that it is possible that the current understanding of anthropology that comes from European and American Anthropology will no longer be accepted as being the truth. Therefore,finding new ways of thinking is necessary for the future development of anthropology.