“流动”与“流变”--田野境遇、理论反思与知识生产

Drifting and Changes:Field Situation,Theorical Reflection and Knowledge Production

田野工作与民族志一直被视作人类学的基石。可是,如何从碎片化的经验现象走向整体、系统的理论分析。如何处理日常生活与理论想象之间的断裂与连接?又如何从民族志走向人类学,其中的过程,一度被视为人类学家的“魔法”。通过在泰国、缅甸以及中缅边境地区长期的田野调查,尝试以“流动”为主线,反思研究者的田野经历与人类学研究的互构过程与思想流变,进而强调,人类学的知识生产,既来自于田野工作者于远、近经验之间的不断穿梭,感性、直觉与理性、逻辑纠缠与交织其中,更源于田野境遇、理论思考、个体识见与共享生活经验等诸多因素相互塑造之下的“因缘际会”。

Field work and ethnography are regarded as the basis of anthropology.However,the processes that how to change the fragmented experience into the integrated and systematic theorical analysis,how to deal with the joint of daily life and theories imagination,and how to transfer from ethnography to anthropology are always viewed as the magic by anthropologists.Based on the long-term field investigation in Thailand,Burma,and the Sino-Burmese border areas,the current paper takes the drifting as the mainline and reflects the interaction process and changes in thinking of field experience of researchers and the study of anthropology.Therefore,it also emphasizes that the knowledge production of anthropology not only comes from field researchers’experi⁃ence and the interaction between rationality and sensibility,but also from field situation,theorical reflection and some factors related to sharing life experience.