中国人类学的重塑:成为一门在世界看世界的新文科

Reshaping Chinese Anthropology:Becoming a New Liberal Arts to View the World

中国人类学同行多年都是在预设中国社会科学的既定格局下呼吁人类学的学科升级,而现实的发展显示,人类学在新文科建设中重塑自身并参与改变社会科学,才能够顺理成章地得到提升。置身于一个技术创新和流动性剧增的新社会,中国人类学由海外民族志的开拓到融合“家乡”和“海外”的世界社会研究,适逢区域国别研究的兴起并能够在其中发挥重要作用,为社会科学各个学科提供参与观察的视野和方法、整体论的理念,提供比较的经验案例,由此促成中国社会科学成为中文知识共同体在经验研究上打通中国与世界的学术,从而在完成一门在世界看世界的新文科建设中重塑自己的学术身份与学科地位。

Chinese anthropologists have been calling for the discipline of anthropology to be upgraded within the established pattern of Chinese social sciences for many years,but the reality shows that anthropology can be naturally improved by reshaping itself and participating in the transformation of social sciences in the construction of New Liberal Arts.In a new society with increasing technological innovation and mobility,Chinese anthropology has evolved from pioneering overseas ethnography to integrating world social studies at home and overseas.This evolution coincides with the rise of regional and national studies,allowing Chinese anthropology to make important contributions,such as providing perspectives,methods,concepts of holism,and comparative empirical cases for all disciplines of social sciences.This process enables Chinese social sciences to become the Chinese Epistemic Community that bridges the gap between China and the world in empirical research,so as to reshape its academic identity and status in the construction of new liberal arts that allows the world to see the world through a Chinese lens.