民族志与作为过程的人类学:读英戈尔德在拉德克利夫-布朗讲座上的演讲稿

蒂姆.英戈尔德在"拉德克利夫-布朗讲座"上发展演说,认为人类学不是民族志,或者更精确地说,人类学不等于民族志;人类学不是"研究谁"的学问,而是"和谁研究"的学问。说人类学不是民族志或民族志不等于人类学是个偏激的说法,比较贴切的表述是民族志是人类学的一部分,二者不存在对立,也不能截然分开。民族志和人类学共同构成一个开放的研究过程:一是纵向上运动中的时空连续;一是物质为一端、精神为另一端的"心物"连续。

Ethnography as a Process of Anthropology:A Study of Tim Ingold's Radcliffe-Brown Lecture

Tim Ingold in his Radcliffe-Brown Lecture mentioned that anthropology was not ethnography,or to be more exact,anthropology was not equal to ethnography because anthropology was not a branch of learning focusing on the study of someone but a study with someone.This is not a radical idea.But a better expression is that ethnography is a part of anthropology and the two are closely related and not contradictory.Anthropology and ethnography combine to form an open research process,one being a longitudinal proces...