身体史研究刍议

A Tentative Suggestion for the Research on Body History

从20世纪七八十年代开始,“身体”成为西方人文与社会科学研究的“新大陆”之一,涉及诸多学科领域。就目前中国史学界而言,“身体史”研究尚处于起步阶段,而拓展和深化该项研究似应从以下五个层面展开,分别是:身体器官史的研究、器官功能史的研究、生命关怀史的研究、身体视角史的研究、综合身体史的研究。将身体史研究归纳成五个层次,只是在以往研究经验的基础上提出的研究假设与前瞻。真正意义上的身体史研究范畴之确定,以及使该课题彰显出历史学的特色,则有待于方家进一步深入探讨。

Body has been one of the “New Lands”of Western humanities and social sciences since the 1970s and 1980s.Scholars in philosophy,anthropology,religion,feminism and etc.have been interested in this field and devoted themselves to the continuous research on the theoretical explorations.History inevitably became one of the waves of different disciplines which pay their great attention to body and resulted in many scholarly works.Concerning the research on body history in history circle of contemporary China,five aspects should be developed,including the research on body physical organs,functioning of the organs,concerns about lives,perspectives on the body and comprehensive body history.Based on past study experience,those five aspects are only assumption and consideration brought forwarded by the author.The definite research conception of body history depends on the full development and fruitful research results of this field.