社会文化人类学的语境问题

The Problem of Context in Social and Cultural Anthropology

文章阐述了语境建构问题是社会文化人类学方法论体系中的一个关键的解释性概念,它用发展的眼光,展示了这个问题在不同的时期是如何被重新定义的。它采纳了“转换学科”的方法绘制出这个问题在不同的学科条件下的发展。文章力求从那些被构建的相关的或无关的现象的联系和断离中来阐明语境是和解释联系在一起的。文章也阐述了语境是社会性产物,它会有社会生活,这种生活容易受到人类学的分析的影响。

This article addresses the problem of the construction of context as a key analytical concept in the methodology of social and cultural anthropology. It takes a developmental view, showing how the problem has been re - defined over time. It also adopts a‘ transdisciplinary＇ approach plotting the development of the problem under different disciplinary conditions. It argues that context is linked to interpretafion in terms of connection and disconnection of phenomena construed as relevant or not. It also argues that context is a social construct： it has a ‘social life＇, and this life is susceptible to anthropological analysis.