民族志之“物”志

Records of “Objects” in Ethnography

人类学擅长对物的研究,除了这一学科与达尔文《物种起源》存在着密切的关系外,还凸显了民族志对物之研究的独特的认知和知识谱系;比如通"礼物的交换"建立对对象社会的关照视野,特别是由礼物所建立的社会结构和人际关系。我国的"物"与众不同,嵌入在了悠久的历时性传统中,也反映在复杂的共时性社会中,民族志研究当持有另一种视野。

Anthropology being adept at studying objects is not only due to the fact that the discipline bears a close e relation to Darwin's Origin of Species,but also highlights the unique cognitive and intellectual pedigrees of the ethnographic study on objects.Different from ohters',China's 'objects' are embedded in a long period of tradition,and is also refelcted the complicated synchronic societyin.Thus there should be a different approach to studies on them.