After method? Ethnography in the knowledge economy
After method? Ethnography in the knowledge economy
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方法之后？
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2012
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Richard Ratcliffe
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David S. Mills;Richard Ratcliffe
在本文中，我们认为知识经济正在重塑人类学研究和大众对民族志的理解。对在学术界内外工作的英国社会人类学家的采访提供了对民族志的实践和意义如何被重新设计的见解。英国的政策期望研究（及其影响）可以用货币来衡量、监测和计算，这对定性社会研究提出了特别的要求。为了使我们的案例，我们将重点放在“价值链”的商业隐喻在当代会计实践中的突出地位及其在社会研究定量测量中的应用。在社会人类学中，这种新的计量经济可以在关于田野调查实践的争论中看到。我们的研究表明，随着人类学院系在方法论上对田野调查的忠诚不断加强，对民族志的不同理解正在学术界之外得到发展。我们的结论是，方法和关于方法的争论是棱镜，通过它可以理解对定性研究不断变化的社会和经济期望。
In this article we argue that the knowledge economy is reshaping anthropological research and popular understandings of ethnography. Interviews with British social anthropologists working in, and outside, academia provide insights into how the practices and meanings of ethnography are being reworked. UK policy expectations that research (and its impact) can be measured, monitored and accounted for in monetary terms place particular demands on qualitative social research. To make our case, we focus on the prominence of the business metaphor of the ‘value chain’ in contemporary accounting practice and its use in the quantitative measurement of social research. Within social anthropology this new economy of measurement can be seen in debates over fieldwork practice. We show that as anthropology departments harden their methodological allegiances to fieldwork, very different understandings of ethnography are being developed beyond the academy. We conclude that methods, and debates over methods, are prisms through which to understand the changing social and economic expectations placed upon qualitative research.