THE EMERGENCE OF MULTISPECIES ETHNOGRAPHY
THE EMERGENCE OF MULTISPECIES ETHNOGRAPHY
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1548-1360.2010.01069.x
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发表时间：
2010-11-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Helmreich, Stefan
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作者：
Kirksey, S. Eben;Helmreich, Stefan
至少从博厄斯以来，人类学家一直致力于研究自然与文化之间的关系。在21世纪初，这种持久的兴趣被一些新的转折所扭曲。一批新兴的“多物种人种学家”开始重新强调与人类生活息息相关的生物体的主体性和能动性。多物种民族志出现在三个跨学科的调查：环境研究，科学和技术研究（STS）和动物研究的交叉点。从传统的民族生物学主题出发，有用的植物和魅力动物，多物种民族志学者也将未被充分研究的有机体，如昆虫，真菌和微生物带入人类学对话。人类学家聚集在多物种沙龙，一个艺术展览，在那里一个新兴的跨学科的边界进行了探索，在一系列的生物体，生物科学的文物，和令人惊讶的生物政治干预。
Anthropologists have been committed, at least since Franz Boas, to investigating relationships between nature and culture. At the dawn of the 21st century, this enduring interest was inflected with some new twists. An emergent cohort of "multispecies ethnographers" began to place a fresh emphasis on the subjectivity and agency of organisms whose lives are entangled with humans. Multispecies ethnography emerged at the intersection of three interdisciplinary strands of inquiry: environmental studies, science and technology studies (STS), and animal studies. Departing from classically ethnobiological subjects, useful plants and charismatic animals, multispecies ethnographers also brought understudied organisms-such as insects, fungi, and microbes-into anthropological conversations. Anthropologists gathered together at the Multispecies Salon, an art exhibit, where the boundaries of an emerging interdiscipline were probed amidst a collection of living organisms, artifacts from the biological sciences, and surprising biopolitical interventions.