Ethnographic Writing, the Avant-Garde and a Failure of Nerve1
Ethnographic Writing, the Avant-Garde and a Failure of Nerve1
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民族志写作、先锋派和神经衰弱1
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2013
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P. Atkinson
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本文提醒我们，民族志与美学相互影响的历史由来已久。在受人类学或社会学田野调查启发的文字或图形实验方面，并没有什么新的或最近的东西。我们不必等到所谓的代表权危机才承认这一点。人类学是现代主义美学和文本实践的直接来源和启示之一。我继续认为，太多当代形式的文本实验实际上缺乏真正的实验、前卫的力量。我们需要集体重新审视现代主义的价值观和实践。我认为，太多的当代文本表现出感伤的现实主义，一种以传记或自传体写作的现实主义形式为基础的情感和个人经历。我认为，这代表着一种集体的神经衰竭。我呼吁更有纪律的实验形式，与现代主义情感更相关，以及更忠实的民族志。
The paper reminds us that there has been a long history of mutual influence between ethnography and aesthetics. There is nothing new or recent in textual or graphic experimentation inspired by anthropological or sociological fieldwork. We have not had to wait for the so-called crisis of representation to acknowledge this. Anthropology was among the direct sources and inspirations for modernist aesthetics and textual practice. I go on to suggest that too many contemporary forms of textual experimentation are in fact lacking in truly experimental, avant-garde, force. We need collectively to revisit the values and practices of modernism. I suggest that too many contemporary texts display sentimental realism, a preoccupation with feelings and personal experiences, grounded in realist forms of biographical or autobiographical writing. This represents, I shall suggest, a collective failure of nerve. I call for more disciplined forms of experimentation that are more relevant to a modernist sensibility as well as more faithfully ethnographic.