从永恒的结构到变动的整体——《伊隆戈人的猎头》释读

From Eternal Social Structure to Changeable Whole:Review of Ilongot Headhunting

针对民族志书写的"表述危机",罗纳托·罗萨尔多引入历史角度描述、解释所谓的原始部落,使之前永恒的社会变成了缓慢变动的整体,实现了历史与结构的动态统一,避免了虚假社会样本的制造,成功实验了历史民族志的书写。在《伊隆戈人的猎头》中,围绕个体与群体行动,通过深描"猎头"习俗,罗纳托·罗萨尔多提供了认识伊隆戈社会的新途径,克服了小型部落社会研究中共时性描述和均质化倾向造成的认识不足。

In response to the ＂Crisis of Representation＂ in ethnographic writing, Renato Rosaldo describes and interprets the so - called primitive tribes from a historical perspective, transforming the former eternal society into a slowly changing whole, which achieves the dynamic unity of history and structure, and avoids making false so- cial samples, and successfully experiments the writing of historical ethnography. In Ilongot Headhunting, Renato Rosaldo depicts the custom of headhunting from the perspective of individual and group actions, which provides a new way to know the Ilongot society and overcomes the defects of synchronic description and homogenizing tendency in studies of small tribes.