自我的表征与社会的隐喻:“自我民族志”析论及反思

Self Representations and Social Metaphors: Analysis and Reflection on “Self Ethnography”

2011年以来,武汉大学朱炳祥教授基于《对蹠人》系列民族志研究,提出了“主体民族志”概念,给出了“主体民族志”实践路径,为超越后现代实验民族志开辟了新的方向,推进了实验民族志在中国的发展。朱炳祥教授近年来的新著《自我的解释》和《知识人》,一方面,继续践行“主体民族志”思想,是在“主体民族志”思想的整体观照之下完成的;另一方面,更为值得注意的是,逐渐显露以“自我”为研究取向的另外一种具有重要影响力的新型实验民族志——“自我民族志”——之底色与亮色。它们直接指向和叩问“个体自我”和“群体自我”之双重维度的“自我”,初步彰显“自我民族志”所蕴含的独特理论价值,对于“后现代实验民族志之后民族志如何前行”这个问题场域有着新的扩展意义。对此问题的深入揭示,可以进一步推动民族志范式和理论的更新、发展与反思。

Since 2011, Professor Zhu Bingxiang of Wuhan University has put forward the concept of “subjective ethnography” based on the series of ethnographic studies which opens up a new direction for transcending post-modern experimental ethnography and promoting the development of experimental ethnography in China. His new works, including Self Interpretation and Intellectuals on the basis of the thoughts of “subjective ethnography” have gradually developed another experimental ethnography——“self ethnography”, which directly points to the dual dimensions of “individual self” and “group self”. Owing to its unique theoretical value, “self ethnography” reveals a new expanding significance for the problem field of “how to move forward after post-modern experimental ethnography”. This paper discovers this in depth in order to further promote the renewal, development and reflection of ethnography paradigm and theory.