跨国人口流动与族群认同——以东南亚的尼泊尔移民为例

通过对缅甸、泰国的尼泊尔移民的田野调查,探讨了跨国人口流动中的族群认同问题。在理论上,运用巴特的族群理论,批判了英美两国人类学传统上视社会和文化为孤立整体的思想,强调社会是一个无序的系统,并且不具备封闭性。而在方法论上,在国内首次阐述了好奇心在人类学田野调查中的重要作用,要求人类学工作者要以具体的人类行为和环境因素为基本研究对象;空间上外延、时间上后延来追溯研究对象的影响因素,同时以现存理论和模型为指导进行研究。

Ethnicity and Migration——Exploring Causal and Semiotic Contexts of Nepalese Migrants in Southeast Asia

Through interviewing the migrants from Nepal to Myanmar and Thailand,the author explores the interconnection between ethnic identity and migration.Theoretically,Barth's idea of society as disordered systems,characterized by an absence of closure is applied to criticize the idea of society and culture as holistically integrated units.Methodologically,curiosity-driven in the fieldwork is first proposed in China and the anthropologist should study the concrete human behavior and its concrete environmental effects,and trace the treads of causal influence upon these outward in space and backward in time,with whatever guidance they can get from existing theories and models.