了解他者 反思自身——以莫斯《礼物》为例

Understanding others reflecting ourselves

莫斯的《礼物》是人类学的经典著作之一,阅读该书,有助于我们更好地理解人类学学科特点和研究方法,同时也有助于理解莫斯以及评价他的学术贡献。书中,作者对"礼物交换"这种极其广泛的习俗首次进行了系统性的比较研究,激发了学者与读者的多重解读,也引发了人类学及社会科学领域中关于"礼物"的一系列研究。另外,作者对大量资料和文献的驾驭能力、分析与观察问题的独特视角以及通过这些所展示出来的社会学或人类学方法,也充分奠定了此书的重要地位。

＂Gift＂（Marcel Mauss） is one of the classic works in Anthropology domain. Reading this book will help us to understand the features and researching methods of the discipline and to understand and review the achievements of Mauss. The author systematically studied ＂gift exchange＂, a very wide range of customs, for the first time through comparative way. It inspired various interpretation of scholars and readers, and a series of studies on the ＂gift＂ in the field of Anthropology and social sciences. In addition, the author give great expression about his ability to dealing with the large amounts of documental data and to analyzing and observing with unique perspective.