论经济人类学的若干问题

ON SOME KEY ISSUES IN ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY

经济人类学是人类学与经济学对话的产物,它将人类的经济行为作为研究对象,但有别于经济学的理解。经济人类学曾经历了三个不同的发展阶段,在此基础上,人类学家能够进一步将世界经济作为一个整体研究,从而使经济人类学发展步入一个全新的阶段。传统的经济人类学以西方知识史为背景来研究人类的经济行为,无疑具有一定的局限性。学术界必须用更广泛的视野来考察人们的经济活动以及人们的需求和动机。经济人类学的研究成果经常被其他领域的社会科学家认为过度微观和非典型。因此,其研究方法必须得到完善,不仅要开展跨领域研究,还要扩大到历史的中级和宏观层次。

Economic anthropology is a production in the dialogue between anthropology and economics, which takes the human economic behavior as its research object but differs from the perspective of economics in the understanding of economy. It has gone through three different stages of development, from which anthropologists are able to take one - step further to study the world economy as a whole, thus the development of economic anthropology will enter a brand - new stage. The traditional economic anthropology studies economic behavior of human beings under the background of Western knowledge, undoubtedly, there are some limitations in terms of the scope and methods in study. As such, we must investigate people economic behavior as well as their needs and motivation with broad perspectives. The research results of economic anthropology are often viewed as excessive micro and atypical by social scientists from other fields. Therefore, economic anthropology must improve its research methods so as to carry out cross -disciplinary research on the one hand, and to extend the scope to the intermediate and the macroscopic level of history on the other.