人类学为什么重要

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• The kind of anthropology I propound here… is not to interpret or explain the ways of others; not to put them in their place or consign them to the ‘already understood’. It is rather to share in their presence, to learn from their experiments in living, and to bring this experience to bear on our own imaginings of what human life could be like, its future conditions and possibilities. Anthropology, for me, thrives on this engagement of imagination and experience… My kind of anthropology, indeed, is not in the business of ‘knowledge production’ at all. It aspires to an altogether different relation with the world. For anthropologists as for the people among whom they work, the world is not the object of study but its milieu. They are, from the start, immersed in its processes and relations.... (查看原文)

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• Westerner, it turns out, are always conspicuous by the absence. For in truth, they have never existed. Despite strident assertions of the universal values of modernity, by philosophers and statesmen alike, it is not practicably possible to live by them. Cosmopolitan, rational and uncompromisingly self-interested, belong nowhere and to no-one, the modern wester is a figment of our imagination (49). (查看原文)

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