“What Do You Really Want in German East Africa, Herr Professor?” Counterinsurgency and the Science Effect in Colonial Tanzania
“What Do You Really Want in German East Africa, Herr Professor?” Counterinsurgency and the Science Effect in Colonial Tanzania
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“教授先生，您在德属东非真正想要什么？平叛和坦桑尼亚殖民地的科学效应”
DOI：
10.1017/s0010417506000168
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发表时间：
2006
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0.7
通讯作者：
A. Zimmerman
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作者：
A. Zimmerman
“教授先生，您在德属东非真正想要什么？” 1906 年，在一艘开往德国殖民地（今天的坦桑尼亚）的船上，人类学家卡尔·韦勒 (Karl Weule) 的多名乘客向人类学家卡尔·韦勒 (Karl Weule) 提出了这样的问题。至少这是韦勒本人在旅行归来后回忆起的问题，在这次旅行中，他被抓获并参加了非洲有史以来最伟大的反殖民起义之一——马吉马吉起义之后的反叛乱行动。维勒写道，一位优雅的女士问道：“教授先生，您想从所有这些部落中得到什么？只是为了为您位于莱比锡的博物馆收集一些东西？还是说当今的人类学还有其他更高的目标？”韦勒解释说，人类学确实有“其他更高的目标”：“我最亲爱的，你所说的博物馆是真实存在的，即使是最铁石心肠的庸人也不得不承认。……但是，当人类学知道没有什么比简单地将弓、箭、矛和数千种其他东西放在一起更高更好的时候，它如何能够维护其作为一门科学备受争议的地位？这种收集和保存实际上只是……我们工作的基本分支。另外，更高的部分是精神文化 [geistige Kulturbesitzes] 的研究 [Aufnahme]。”
“What do you really want in German East Africa, Herr Professor?” was a question asked of the anthropologist Karl Weule by more than a few of his fellow passengers on board a ship bound for the German colony that is today Tanzania, in 1906. At least this was what Weule himself recalled after he returned from a journey during which he was caught up, and participated in, the counterinsurgency operations that followed one of the greatest anti-colonial uprisings that Africa had ever seen, the Maji Maji uprising. One elegant woman, Weule wrote, demanded: “And what do you want, Herr Professor, from all these tribes? Simply to collect for your museum in Leipzig? Or does the anthropology of today also have other, higher goals?” Anthropology did indeed, Weule explained, have “other, higher goals”: “The museum you speak of, my dearest, exists out in reality, as even the most hard-hearted Philistine would have to admit. … But how will anthropology be able to assert its much-contested status as a science, when it knows nothing higher and better than simply to bring together bows, arrows, spears, and thousands of other things? This collecting and preserving is really just … the elementary branch of our work. The other, higher part is the study [Aufnahme] of mental culture [geistige Kulturbesitzes].”