Barefoot in Britain – yet again: On multiple identities, intersection(ality) and marginality
Barefoot in Britain – yet again: On multiple identities, intersection(ality) and marginality
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赤脚在英国——再一次：关于多重身份、交叉（性）和边缘性
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2017
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P. Werbner
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英国的人类学家预见到后来关于多元文化主义和阶级“分数”的辩论，他们认识到移民和散居者具有多重身份，这意味着他们的文化不能也不应该被本质上视为同质的。对人类学家来说，研究这些群体的多重身份的重要性在于认识到，所唤起的社会统一--身份、散居、社区、民族、传统--没有一个是基于共识的整体;所有这些都是持续辩论、政治斗争或联盟的产物。本文认为，虽然多重身份和交叉性似乎是联系在一起的，在这个意义上，都涉及身份和身份政治的问题，他们根本不同。在这方面，英国的人类学家与社会学家和政治学家不同，他们认为，首先，身份可以赋予权力，价值和深刻的情感，其次，身份是在原地进行的-它们是情境性的，变化的，自我定义的和文化嵌入的。
Anticipating later debates on multiculturalism and class ‘fractions’, anthropologists in Britain have recognised that migrants and diasporas bear multiple identities, meaning that their cultures cannot and should not be essentialised as homogeneous. For anthropologists, the importance of studying these groups’ multiple identities lies in the recognition that none of the social unities evoked – of identity, diaspora, community, nation, tradition – are consensus-based wholes; all are the products of ongoing debates and political struggles or alliances. This article argues that while multiple identities and intersectionality appear to be linked, in the sense that both concern matters of identity and identity politics, they differ radically. In this respect anthropologists of Britain have differed from sociologists and political scientists in arguing, first, for an understanding that identities can be empowering, valorised and deeply affective, and second, that identities are performed in situ – they are situational, shifting, self-defining and culturally embedded.