20世纪60年代以来的西方政治人类学

Western Political Anthropology since the 1960s

政治人类学自20世纪60年代以来,发生了巨大的转变。国家甚至国际政治成为人类学家思考的维度置于他们的研究当中。从此,政治人类学是否作为一个相对独立的领域而存在成为了问题,因为整体的社会文化人类学研究已经无法脱离政治语境独善其身。而源于政治人类学研究的若干课题和学术投入,反倒成为大有取代政治人类学的研究领域。追溯半个多世纪来的学术流变,可以认为政治人类学依然值得展望,因为在当下世界太多事情发生均源于政治。

Political anthropology has undergone tremendous changes since the 1960s.The dimensions of national and even international polities have been placed in researches by anthropologists.Since then,the existence of political anthro-pology as a relatively independent field has become a subject of inquiry,because the overall sociocultural anthropological research has been unable to escape from the political context.However,several topics and academic input stemming from the study of political anthropology have become a research field that has potential to replace political anthropology.By trac- ing the academic changes during more than half a century,this paper holds that political anthropology is still worth looking forward to,because in the contemporary world,too many things have originated from polities.