跨文化研究与西部大开发——人类学学者访谈录之九

新疆是一个多民族的社会，其多元文化格局的形成，是在历史长河中许多族群互相交流、文化相互碰撞、互相吸收的过程中交融而产生、发展起来的，因此，只有通过田野调查，获得了足够的本土知识，才能在这个基础上做实证性的研究，这样一种跨文化的研究本身就具有本土化的特征。新疆人类学本土化一个重要问题即是如何认识和解释新疆的多元文化现象，然后让学术研究为西部大开发服务。

Profiles of Anthropologists (IV)

Xinjiang is a multi-ethnic society, its pluralism of culturepattern results from the historical mutual exchange and absorption of cultures among different ethnic groups. Therefore, pragmatic research must be based on the field investigation and adequate native knowledge. Such a cross-cultural research bears some features of nativization. An important issue of the nativization of anthropology in Xinjiang is how to recognize and interpret its pluralism of cultures to serve the Grand Opening up of the West.