从文学到人类学——关于民族志和写文化的答问

From Literature to Anthropology:Queries and Answers in Ethnography and Writing Culture

人类学的学科特点可以简括为田野考察和民族志写作。长久以来对于前者关注较多,而对后者讨论较少。本文聚焦于民族志的书写层面,结合文学与人类学的内在关联,通过问答的形式提出了自己的看法,认为在对特定族群写"志"这一点上,人类学可被视为一种文学;反之,文学也是人类学。

The anthropology might well be featured by fieldwork and ethnographic writing. The former, for a very long time, has got much more attention, while the latter was less concerned. The paper focuses on the ＂writing＂ of ethnography, and offer an alternative viewpoint on the basis of the inter -link between literature and anthropology： when it comes to ＂ writing＂ a certain ethnic minority group, anthropology should be seen as a kind of literature, and vice versa, literature as anthropology.