一个“边缘”的传统———人类学在荷兰

荷兰人类学的产生与殖民主义密切相关。长达350年之久的印度尼西亚殖民史造就了以实用主义为基础的人类学学科特征,这一点尤其反映在资料分析和田野调查上。在印度尼西亚研究基础上发展起来的荷兰结构主义人类学虽然并非广为人知,但它在亲属理论和社会结构理论方面,却绝不逊色于英法结构主义。1949年印度尼西亚独立以后,荷兰传统的院系制度开始发生变化,人类学研究向区域多样化、研究主题多样化发展。

A "Marginal" Tradition:Anthropology in the Netherlands

The Netherlands anthropology is closely associated with colonialism.The 350 years of colonial history in Indonesia made a pragmatic feature of Netherlands anthropology.This characteristic could befound in both data analysis and field work.The structural anthropology in the Netherlands is based on Indonesia studies,although it is not popular internationally,its contribution to the theory of kinship and social structure is by no means inferior to the English and France structural anthropology.After 1949,traditional faculty system in the Netherlands changed.Anthropology itself began moving toward regional variety and subjective multiplicity.