HIERARCHY, VALUES, AND THE VALUE OF HIERARCHY
HIERARCHY, VALUES, AND THE VALUE OF HIERARCHY
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等级制度、价值观以及等级制度的价值
DOI：
10.3167/sa.2016.600401
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
N. Haynes
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作者：
N. Haynes
人类学家工作的许多社区都是按等级组织的，生活在其中的人们经常用积极的语言来描述这种安排。尽管如此，人类学家很少从正面描绘等级制度。这期特刊的目的是质疑这种倾向与人种学的社会背景下，等级制度被视为一个理想的社会善的见解。通过对研究文章的介绍，我们探讨了西方思想中使人类学家难以认真对待等级制度的那些方面。此外，我们开发了一种解释性的方法，把层次结构作为一种关系形式和一个理论模型，也就是说，作为一个框架来理解价值绘制在我们自己的民族志研究在南部非洲。
Many of the communities in which anthropologists work are hierarchically organized, and the people who live in them often describe this arrangement in positive terms. Nevertheless, anthropologists rarely paint hierarchy in a favorable light. This special issue aims to question this tendency with ethnographic insights into social contexts where hierarchy is regarded as a desirable social good. By way of an introduction to the research articles, we explore those aspects of Western thought that make it difficult for anthropologists to take hierarchy seriously. In addition, we develop an interpretive approach that treats hierarchy both as a relational form and as a theoretical model—that is, as a framework for understanding value—drawing in part on our own ethnographic research in southern Africa.