知识人类学的研究历史与趋势

History and Trend of Anthropology of Knowledge

知识人类学与现代社会科学一样,产生于19世纪,主要致力于解释知识是如何被生产以及如何用于交流的。20世纪70年代,知识人类学将语言模式的文化价值认知纳入自身体系中。20世纪晚期以来,知识人类学主要关注文化交流的意义以及社会价值知识如何被生产出来等相关问题。当下,知识人类学与心理学、地理学等学科相结合,进行跨学科的合作,探究大众化和制度化的文化表达,关注知识的社会再生产以及权力、价值、交流和控制等内容,日益成为人类学中的一个重要领域。

Anthropology of knowledge, like the other modern social sciences, originated in the 19th Century, and is mainly aimed at explaining how knowledge is produced and used for communication. In the 1970s, anthropology of knowledge incorporated the cultural value cognition of language models into its own system. Since the late 20th Century it has mainly focused on the significance of cultural exchanges and related issues, for instance how social value knowledge is produced. At present, anthropology of knowledge combines itself with disciplines such as psychology and geography to conduct interdisciplinary cooperation, explore popularized and institutionalized cultural expressions, pay attention to the social reproduction of knowledge and the content of power, value, communication and control, which has played an increasingly important role in anthropology.