The Return of the Native: Organizational Discourses and the Legacy of the Ethnographic Imagination
The Return of the Native: Organizational Discourses and the Legacy of the Ethnographic Imagination
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原住民的回归：组织话语和民族志想象力的遗产
DOI：
10.1057/9781403982292_6
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发表时间：
2003
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
P. Prasad
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作者：
P. Prasad
民族志是西方帝国主义盛行时期的一个可以说是“学术性”的副产品，它是一种通过广泛的文化沉浸过程来研究土著（非西方）民族的制度化实践。虽然民族志在很大程度上倾向于与从事“他者”文化研究的人类学分支密切相关，但其自身的文化影响力远远超出了其直接的学术地位。事实上，在西方社会的许多领域中，都存在着一种很可能被称为“人种志想象”的东西（Evans，1999;赫伯特，1991）。正如迪列奥纳多（1998：29）敏锐地观察到的那样，“人类学作为比喻长期以来一直是美国（和西方）文化包袱的一个元素。”
One of the arguably “scholarly” by-products of the West’s era of high imperialism was ethnography—the institutionalized practice of studying indigenous (non-Western) peoples through a process of extended cultural immersion. While ethnography for the most part tends to be strongly identified with the anthropological subfield that engages in cultural depictions of “other,” its own cultural influence extends way beyond its immediate academic location. Indeed, something that might well be called an “ethnographic imagination” (Evans, 1999; Herbert, 1991) is very much present in many realms of Western society. As di Leonardo (1998: 29) has astutely observed, “anthropology as trope has long been an element of American [and Western] cultural baggage.”