显与隐——文化展示的人类学与人类学的文化展示

The Revealed and the Concealed on Cultural Displays

本文以"显"和"隐"两个字为切入点,探讨了文化展示的人类学与人类学的文化展示的关系。虽然人类学家常常认为自己是田野中使"隐"得以显现的人,但实际上不同地方的"报道人"已经生活在一个兼备"显"和"隐"的世界里。我们在田野调查时看到的文化展示,如寺庙及其节庆,充满了"展示的智慧",堪与伴随着"殖民现代性"而来的各种"展示文化"做比对。此外,人类学家在寺庙庆典的"综合文本"中看到的——尤其是他们的献祭逻辑——对我们改革当代的"展示文化"具有启发意义。

The short essay engages a pair of Chinese characters, Xian(revealed) and Yin(concealed), in a discussion of the relationship between the anthropology of cultural displays and the cultural displays of anthropology. The author argues that although anthropologists often think of themselves as those who "reveal" the "concealed" in the field, the "informants" in different localities have already lived in a world of both Xian and Yin factors. Furthermore, the cultural displays as we see in the field, like, temples and their festivals, are full of "wisdom of exposition", waiting to be compared with the various "exhibiting cultures" arriving along with "colonial modernity". The author also argues that what ethnographers have seen in the "synthetic texts" of temple festivity, especially their logic of sacrifice, is inspiring to our reformation of modern "exhibiting culture".