政治人类学今昔

The Past and Present Political Anthropology

回顾政治人类学的崛起与发展历史,并集中讨论了过去七十多年来该领域的几种有影响的范式的形成与发展,尤其对结构功能、行动理论、政治经济学理论等几个主导范式作了较深入的讨论。认为政治人类学的崛起虽然有为殖民主义服务之嫌,但应当看到,这并非当年那些为政治人类学的奠定和发展做出贡献的人类学家的初衷。相反,他们中的不少人甚至是殖民地政治的反对者。

This paper examines the rise and development ot ponncai antnro pology and focuses on the formation and development of Several paradigms which have been of great influence over the past seven decades; especially structural functionalism, action theory, and political economy. The author argues that the emergence of political anthropology might have served the colonial administra- tion. However, that was not the original intention of those anthropologtsts. Instead, many of them were against colonialismi