Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary
Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary
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当代人类学设计
DOI：
10.1215/9780822390060
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发表时间：
2020
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T. Rees
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作者：
P. Rabinow;G. Marcus;James Faubion;T. Rees
在这本紧凑的书中，两位人类学最有影响力的理论家保罗·拉比诺和乔治·E·马库斯进行了一系列关于人类学知识、教育学和实践的过去、现在和未来的对话。詹姆斯·D·福比恩 (James D. Faubion) 参加了多次交流活动，以促进和阐述对话，托拜厄斯·里斯 (Tobias Rees) 主持讨论，并为本书提供了介绍和后记。大多数对话都集中在人类学如何理解其主题以及如何设计和实施人种学研究项目的当代挑战上。拉比诺和马库斯反思了当代事件和过程研究中仍然具有明显人类学特征的部分，并思考了该领域富有成效的新方向。两者的交汇点在于，马库斯强调需要重新设计培训人类学研究人员的教学实践，而拉比诺提出的合作倡议可以对民族志研究设计进行分析、实验和改造。
拉比诺和马库斯都参与了里程碑式的著作《写作文化：民族志的诗学与政治》。 《写作文化》出版于 1986 年，促进了对民族志学者如何接触、研究和撰写其主题的重新评估。在《当代人类学设计》一书的开场对话中，拉比诺和马库斯通过讨论《写作文化》介入的知识界、该书的贡献及其概念局限性，回顾了人类学的近代史。考虑到该卷出版以来该领域的发展，他们讨论的主题包括民族志的自我反思转向、学者对身份问题的日益关注、公共文化项目、科学和技术研究以及学生不断变化的兴趣和目标。 《当代人类学设计》让读者能够窃听人类学家之间的生动对话，这些人类学家帮助塑造了该领域的近代历史，并对其未来进行了深入投资。
In this compact volume two of anthropology’s most influential theorists, Paul Rabinow and George E. Marcus, engage in a series of conversations about the past, present, and future of anthropological knowledge, pedagogy, and practice. James D. Faubion joins in several exchanges to facilitate and elaborate the dialogue, and Tobias Rees moderates the discussions and contributes an introduction and an afterword to the volume. Most of the conversations are focused on contemporary challenges to how anthropology understands its subject and how ethnographic research projects are designed and carried out. Rabinow and Marcus reflect on what remains distinctly anthropological about the study of contemporary events and processes, and they contemplate productive new directions for the field. The two converge in Marcus’s emphasis on the need to redesign pedagogical practices for training anthropological researchers and in Rabinow’s proposal of collaborative initiatives in which ethnographic research designs could be analyzed, experimented with, and transformed.
Both Rabinow and Marcus participated in the milestone collection Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography . Published in 1986, Writing Culture catalyzed a reassessment of how ethnographers encountered, studied, and wrote about their subjects. In the opening conversations of Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary , Rabinow and Marcus take stock of anthropology’s recent past by discussing the intellectual scene in which Writing Culture intervened, the book’s contributions, and its conceptual limitations. Considering how the field has developed since the publication of that volume, they address topics including ethnography’s self-reflexive turn, scholars’ increased focus on questions of identity, the Public Culture project, science and technology studies, and the changing interests and goals of students. Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary allows readers to eavesdrop on lively conversations between anthropologists who have helped to shape their field’s recent past and are deeply invested in its future.