Cultural Anthropology and Open Access—Interview With Dominic Boyer,Cymene Howe,and Marcel LaFlamme

Abstract

In this installment of “Conversations,” Dominic Boyer, Cymene Howe, and Marcel LaFlamme, of the Cultural Anthropology editorial team, discuss the ins and outs of publishing a gold open access journal in the field of anthropology. Highlights of the discussion include Cultural Anthropology’s move to open access, the ethics of open access, the growth of international readership, ongoing publishing challenges in open access, and the role libraries can play with open access publishing.     

Close but not committed? The multiple dimensions of relational embeddedness

This research addresses the complexity of embedded inter-firm ties. Based on both qualitative and quantitative data from field research in the computer motherboard manufacturing industry, this paper investigates the origins of close ties and committed relationships, and explores the relationships between these two dimensions of embedded inter-firm relationships. The results show that companies establish close relationships with their partners to resolve coordination uncertainty due to a high level of task interdependence in their exchanges, and that firms become more collaboratively committed when they seek to alter a disadvantaged power asymmetry. At the same time, the fieldwork found an underlying conflict between the embeddedness dimensions of closeness and commitment: too much closeness reduces a partner’s commitment. These findings have significant implications for the formation of embedded corporate ties as well as the effects of embeddedness on organizations.     

“信达切”三原则在文学翻译中的适用性——以李文俊译《喧哗与骚动》为例

＂信达切＂三原则由已故翻译家、翻译理论家刘重德先生在对严复的信达雅标准扬长避短的基础上提出并经过三次逐渐完善的阐释,在文学翻译理论研究界引起强烈反响。该原则的适用性可在李文俊对《喧哗与骚动》的汉译中找到明证：在内容上,译者字斟句酌加上必要的注释,毫无偏差地忠实于原文,完全地实践了＂信＂的标准;在表达上,归化和异化,简短地道的口语与庄重冗长的书面语完美融合;在再创原文风格上,紧切原文人物的个性化语言,最佳地切合了原文独特的风格。因此,＂信达切＂三原则适用于文学翻译。     

论多维叙事下的《喧哗与骚动》

《喧哗与骚动》是福克纳的代表作,也是他运用多种现代派手法来表现故事的一部作品。在这部小说里,作者采用四个人的口吻来叙述同一主题,运用了意识流、多视角、复调等手法,描写了美国南方康普生一家由兴到衰的过程。     

Exemplary sound and hearing in sensory treatises from the early modern Spanish-speaking world

This essay considers sound in sensory treatises from the seventeenth-century Hispanic world: Jerónimo Becerra’s Estvdioso discvrso philosophica anathomia, y theatro ingenioso de los organos y sentidos interiores, y exteriores del hombre (Mexico, 1657); Tratado de los bienes del silencio y males de la lengua, attributed to rector of the Colegio de Manila Diego de S. I. Bobadilla (Manila, 1645) and Diego Calleja’s Talentos logrados, en el buen uso de los cinco sentidos (Madrid, 1700). My purpose is to draw out the authors’ engagement with aural discourses that intersect with other areas of early modern thought. Above all, I underscore the reconciliation of existing ideas about sound’s spiritual significance with developments in medicine and anatomy. The study is the first in-depth examination of each of the three treatises it considers. It advances our understanding of seventeenth-century sound culture and underscores the need for re-reading cultural production from this time period through an aural lens.     

步入重生的美学——解读《山音》的老年主题

《山音》是川端康成战后代表作之一。文中,信吾经历了反对死亡、接受死亡和超越死亡的三阶段后,渐悟出"万物一如轮回转生"思想。重生与超越体现了信吾思想意识的升华,也标志着作品老年主题的深化和作品精神境界的升华。小说不仅以其幽玄的美烘托出"老"在生命轮回流转中的独特意义,而且它独特的审美意趣更能让读者真正领略到新的艺术洞天。     

词的音变与过程分析——以彝语音变为例

词是语言单位中一个重要的中间环节,它由语音、语义和形式三个部分构成,词的音变带动语义和形式的变化。彝语音变主要反映在词的音变类型和音变方式上。     

Assembling the dance: reggae sound system practices in the United Kingdom and France

Reggae sound systems are assemblages of speakers, record decks, and amplifiers that permit sound to be reproduced at very powerful levels. Sound systems crews, alongside an extended affinity group, build their own systems and organize and engineer the space of the dance. Interviews with crews from the United Kingdom and France reveal differences in how they each draw from the history of Jamaican musical experimentation when making spaces to collectively immerse the crew and crowd in sound. Yet in both cases, their approach to sound design communicates a commitment to inclusivity, maintaining an emphasis on the “vibe,” which progressively alters participants’ somatic experience and perceptions. In contrast to “dancehall” in Jamaica, such sound systems disrupt understandings of a “standard” setup that reinforces hierarchical relationships between performers and audience. Crews also downplay the visual aspects of the “dance” and dancing and are consciously non-consumerist. Thus, different crews’ histories and associations alter how they enact, feel, and understand similar conventions.     

Eco/Feminism on the Edge

In this commentary I extend and converse with Niamh Moore's account of ecofeminist politics at Clayoquot Sound during the 1993 peace camp. In agreeing with her argument that such activist moments are more complex than the charges of maternalism and essentialism that have been thrown at them, I support her genealogical approach to understanding the particular gender relations that unfolded during the protest. In addition, I suggest that an understanding of the wider gender politics of the region, in addition to further consideration of other ecofeminist problematiques, would extend and enrich such analyses of ecofeminist activisms.     

从空间构造论三岛由纪夫《潮骚》的主题建构

《潮骚》是三岛由纪夫描写唯美爱情故事的代表作。通过从叙事学角度对作品空间构造的分析可以看到,神社、灯塔分别以新治和初江为表象,具有对内与外的象征意义,同时体现出歌岛这个封闭空间的相对性。立体空间结构及若干对立关系的塑造和叙事视角的多角度转换使故事情节生动充实,既体现了作者对甜蜜爱情的赞美,也展示了故事深层所蕴含的主人公自我意识的觉醒,表现了三岛对理想之乡的向往和对现实的无奈。