行走在美学与人类学的边界之处——论审美人类学如何可能

Walking at the Border of Aesthetics and Anthropology——On Possibility of Aesthetic Ahthropology

美学与人类学之间具有漫长的天然联系。现代人类学以其高度的学科际属性和不断磨练的敏锐的田野洞察力为探讨美学研究的问题意识、美学基本范畴的合法性、西方美学普适性神话何以走向衰微等问题提供了独特的批判视角和广阔的经验解读空间。然而,审美现象自身的特殊性和复杂性以及传统美学和传统人类学在审美和艺术问题研究中的限度使得"美"无法自由地显现。至此,审美人类学恰恰是在自身与传统美学和传统人类学的区分中获得自身的规定性,并成为可能。

There is a long-term natural relation between aesthetics and anthropology. With its high intersubject quality and consis-tently tempered, cute fidd-research insight, modem anthropology provides an unique perspective of criticism and broad space of experience reading, to inquire into the problem consciousness of aesthetic studies, legitimization of primary aesthetic catalogy, and how the universality of western myths is tend to decline, etc. However, the particularity and complexity of aesthetic phenomena themselves, along with the limitation of traditional aesthetics and traditional anthropology in the problem studies of aesthetics and art makes “beauty”unable to be shown freely. At this point, aesthetic anthropology just gains its stipulation in its distinction from traditional aesthetics and traditional anthropology, thus possesses possibility.