民族志的三重性:科学、反思与行动

科学民族志致力于客观描述遥远的他者,主客的分离折射出文明与野蛮的距离.现代性将散落在世界角落的文化卷入同一历史进程,并在与地方性的碰撞中创造出一个接触地带.当民族志转向这个接触地带时,民族志作者及其所置身的文化也将成为反思的对象.面对事实与建构、主位与客位、科学与艺术、中立与介入等二元对立状态,本文认为民族志研究应具有三重取向,即科学、反思与行动.

On the Ethnography Trinity: Science, Reflection and Action

Scientific ethnography describes the remote others objectively.The separation between subject and object indicates the space of civilization and savage.The scattered cultures all over the world were involved in the same historical process through modernity.The interaction between modernity and locality brought forth contact zones.When ethnography focuses on it,the author and his culture also become the reflexive objects.Because of the dual conflicts between fact and construct,emic and etic,science and art,v...