Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War, and the State
Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War, and the State
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努尔困境：应对金钱、战争和国家
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10.2307/3034081
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1996
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S. Hutchinson
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作者：
S. Hutchinson
通过英国著名人类学家E。E.埃文斯-普里查德，苏丹南部的努埃尔人，已经成为人类学最著名的案例研究之一。现在，沙龙哈钦森结合了新的民族志证据和当代的理论视角，不仅展示了自20世纪30年代与埃文斯-普里查德相遇以来努尔人发生了什么，而且更重要的是，从民族志材料的彻底历史化处理中可以获得什么。哈钦森的工作为人类学在20世纪90年代的发展提供了一个视角。哈钦森专注于努尔人对变化的看法、经历和评价，追溯了导致当代男女重新考虑他们生活的基本方面的历史条件。她提出了一些埃文斯-普里查德没有提出的重要问题：我们如何超越基于文化“边界”、“包容性”和“秩序”概念的静态结构模型？努尔人是如何根据戏剧性的经济变化、宗教传教、内战、殖民和后殖民统治积极地重塑和重新评估当地的权力形式的？哈钦森创作了一部内容丰富的民族志文献，为民族志的写作提供了一种新的修辞策略，这种策略同时具有过程性、对话性和反思性。
Through the pioneering efforts of the famed British anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard, the Nuer of southern Sudan have become one of anthropology's most celebrated case studies. Now Sharon Hutchinson combines fresh ethnographic evidence and contemporary theoretical perspectives to show not only what has happened to the Nuer since their 1930s encounters with Evans-Pritchard, but, more importantly, what is to be gained from a thoroughly historicized treatment of ethnographic materials. Hutchinson's work provides a vision for what anthropology has become in the 1990s. Concentrating on Nuer perceptions, experiences, and evaluations of change, Hutchinson traces the historical conditions that have led contemporary men and women to reconsider fundamental aspects of their lives. She raises a number of important issues that Evans-Pritchard did not: How can we move beyond static structural models based on notions of cultural 'boundedness', 'homogeneity', and 'order'? How have Nuer people been actively reshaping and reassessing local forms of power in light of dramatic economic shifts, religious proselytizing, civil war, and colonial and post colonial rule? Hutchinson has produced a rich ethnographic document that offers a new rhetorical strategy for writing ethnographies that is processual, dialogical, and reflexive all at once.