论人类学民族学的田野回访与田野再研究

On Anthropological Ethnology Field Visit and Field Re-study

田野工作是在人类学民族学研究范式中不得不涉及的环节。对于已经研究过的田野点进行跟踪调查,国内学者一般称其为“田野回访”,西方学者则将其称为“田野再研究”。通过回顾中国民族志和西方民族志中有关田野回访与田野再研究的经典案例,在充分理解前人研究时所处的特定时空等背景的基础上,分析了田野回访与田野再研究的区别,提出了田野工作所处的时间、空间等因素对调查结果的影响,希冀在今后的田野工作中不断加以完善,得出更加令人信服的、有持久生命力的学术见解。

Fieldwork is a link that must be involved in the anthropological ethnological research paradigm. To track and investigate the field sites that have been studied, domestic scholars generally call it “field visit”, while western scholars call it “field re-study”. By reviewing the classical cases of field visits and field re-studies in Chinese ethnography and Western ethnography, this present paper analyses the differences between field visits and field re-studies on the basis of fully understanding the specific time and space background of previous studies, and puts forward the factors of time and space in field work. The impact of the results is expected to be continuously improved in the future field work and to obtain more convincing and lasting academic insights.