特质、深描和理解——解读《文化的解释》的路径

Characteristic,Deep description and Understanding——An Interpretation of Interpretation of Culture

《文化的解释》是美国著名人类学家克利福德.格尔茨的扛鼎之作,也是阐释人类学理论流派的奠基之作。在当代,阐释人类学理论流派是自符号人类学和认知人类学以来,被认为是文化人类学在文化批判和文化研究上影响力最为卓著的一个流派。本文通过对《文化的解释》的解读,试析出阐释人类学理论的路径,指出文化特质是阐释人类学理论的突破口,深描是阐释人类学理论采用的主要方法,尊重地方性文化是理解的主要内涵。

Interpretation of Culture is the finest work of Clifford Geerz, a famous anthropologist in America. The book is also a laying-foundation work to interpretive anthropology. At modern times, interpretive anthropology is regarded as the most influential schools of thought to Culture Anthropology in cultural criticism and cultural study since symbolic anthropology. It points out that cultural characteristic is the break-through of interpretive anthropology, and deep description is the main method used by interpretive anthropology, and respecting the indigenous culture is the main connotation for understanding, analyzed the paths of interpretive Anthropology through the interpret to Interpretation of Culture.