灾难的历史研究

HISTORICAL DISASTER RESEARCH

在灾难的人类学研究中,历史的角度具有关联性。历史分析可以揭示出灾难以及人类生境脆弱性后面的生态、经济、社会结构和意识形态等多方面的线索。灾难自身也具有启示性,它将过去与现在联结起来。通过对长期的历史记载的研究发现在墨西哥的生态环境中,干旱、农业灾害和食品危机显现出周期性。从历史的角度进行灾难研究可以对社会现实提出批评和校正。

Historical perspective has relevance to the anthropology of disaster.Virginia Garcia-Acosta,in her works,demonstrates how historical analysis untangles the many threads of ecological,economic,social structure and ideology that go into creating disaster and human and environmental vulnerabilities.Disasters are self-revelatory,and they link the past with the present.Examining long-term records,Garcia-Acosta finds that disasters,particularly droughts and consequent agricultural and food crises,have long been chronic aspects of the Mexican environment.Disaster research from a historical perspective gives a critique and reform of social reality.