巴基斯坦人类学历史与现状

Anthropology in Pakistan:The State of Discipline

本文简要追溯了西方人类学的历史与发展态势,为理解巴基斯坦人类学的学科形成提供了历史和理论背景,旨在通过叙述真纳大学人类学系的历史和发展情况,勾勒出巴基斯坦大学的社会科学领域内一个新兴学科的发展图景。文章以真纳大学的师生为中心,叙述和分析了巴基斯坦人类学的主要研究趋势,结语部分对这一学科在巴基斯坦的未来发展做了一些讨论。

This paper begins by briefly mapping past and current trends in Western Anthropology,which provides historical and theoretical context to understand the disciplinary formations of Anthropology in Pakistan.It aims to sketch the career of a relatively younger discipline in the field of social sciences in Pakistani universities by charting the history and growth of the Department of Anthropology at the Quaid-i-Azam University,Islamabad.While describing and analysing the main research trends in Anthropology in Pakistan,with faculty and students of Quaid-i-Azam University at the centre stage,some remarks are offered in the conclusion to the future of the discipline in Pakistan.