人类学的本土视角——评潘年英《在田野中自觉》

Anthropology in the Native Perspective——Comments on Self-consciousness in the Field by Pan nian-ying

人类学者潘年英教授有两重身份,一是作为人类学学者(他更多的时候是一个作家或公共知识分子)的身份,一是作为土著的身份(许多时候他表现为土著利益的代言人)。这使得他的人类学著作很难做到像一般的人类学那样"客观",但也因此而使我们见识到了一种观察世界的新视角和新观点。他的"土著文明说"虽然还略显粗糙,远未成型,但业已使我们倍感惊奇和骇异。这是人类学本土化的最经典的范例。

Professor Pan Nian-ying, an anthropology scholar, has a double identity, one is a scholar who is expert in anthropology （most of the time, a writer or an intellectual）, the other is a native {more often, a spokesman of his native）. As a result, the objectiveness in his works is not as strong as that in those by others and he has brought about new perspective and new insight. Though far from perfect, his statement of ＂native civilization＂ is of shock and surprise to us, which is the most classic example of the localization of anthropology.