Anthropocene East Anglia
Anthropocene East Anglia
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人类世东安格利亚
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2017
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R. Irvine
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R. Irvine
当我们发现自己处于我们自己创造的地质时代时，有必要重新考虑民族志调查的时间尺度；人类行为的影响表现为深时间的印记。本文以英国东安格利亚芬兰为研究对象，探讨了思考长期环境变化对于理解人类生活的重要性。本文首先探讨了人类地质作用对景观的影响。文章接着认为，虽然这种变化的规模只能在地质时代的背景下理解，但该地区的社会生活仍然表现出“时间锁定”，这在文章中被定义为与历史上某一点景观的日益固定。这种时间锁定的后果是，从字面上看，长期的环境可变性变得不可想象；然而，当深层历史的时间尺度被带入视野时，目前表面上的确定性就受到了质疑。
As we find ourselves in a geological epoch of our own making, it becomes necessary to reconsider the temporal scale of ethnographic enquiry; the effect of human behaviour is shown as a mark in deep time. Focusing on the East Anglian fenland, UK, this article considers the importance of thinking about long-term environmental change for the understanding of human life. First, the article explores the way in which human geological agency has transformed the landscape. It then goes on to argue that while the scale of such changes can only be understood against the backdrop of geological time, social life in the region nevertheless demonstrates ‘temporal lock-in’, which is defined in the article as an increasing fixation with the landscape of a single point in history. The consequence of such temporal lock-in is that long-term environmental variability becomes, literally, unthinkable; yet surface-level certainties of the present are called into question when the timescale of deep history is brought into view.