The Post-Heroic Field
The Post-Heroic Field
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后英雄领域
作者：
Benson, Etienne
这篇文章主张认真对待田野调查，但不要太认真。它关注的是二战后几十年来美国的地质学家和地貌学家，他们使用反讽、讽刺和自我意识的舞台表演来解决他们从世纪末继承的前沿野外考察传统与世纪中期野外考察现实之间的矛盾，他们经常发现很难融入英雄的模式。这篇文章认为，对田野调查传统的嘲笑帮助他们声称传统是他们自己的，即使在构建新的科学人物和实践的时候，在许多方面与传统不同。
This essay argues for taking fieldwork seriously, but not too seriously. It focuses on geologists and geomorphologists in the United States in the post–World War II decades who used irony, satire, and self-conscious staging to negotiate the contradictions between the tradition of frontier fieldwork that they had inherited from the late nineteenth century and the realities of mid-twentieth-century fieldwork, which they often found hard to fit into the heroic mold. Poking fun at the fieldwork tradition, the essay argues, helped them claim that tradition as their own even while constructing new scientific personas and practices that diverged from it in a number of ways.