Ethnography的含义与汉语译名

绝大多数英汉词典把ethnography翻译为人种志、种族志或人种学,较早的汉译论著一般也采用这个译法。虽然近年来人类学和民族学的专业著作,包括汉语著作和汉语译作,已经极少把ethnography表述为人种志、种族志或人种学,但某些论著仍用旧说。事实上,按体质特征为标准进行的种族划分缺乏足够的科学根据,世界上也不存在所谓的种族文化。Ethnography应译为民族志,而不应译为人种志、种族志或人种学;同理,ethno同根词只能翻译为"民族……",如ethnology译为"民族学"。

A Study on the Application of the Ethnography in Developing Intercultural Communication Competence(ICC)

This article focused on the application of ethnography as a qualitative study in developing non-English majors’intercultural communication competence(ICC).The PEER model guided student researchers through the interdependent phrases of preparing,engaging,evaluating and reflecting in the research procedure.In addition,the four components of Byram’s ICC model,namely,knowledge,skills,attitudes,and critical awareness,were used to assess students’ICC development.

Ethnography at the Turn of the Third Decade:Privilege and Challenge

The article analyzes the situation in which ethnographic studies found themselves at the turn of the third decade of the 21st century.The historical background,rooted in the past century,as well as the situation that developed by the end of the second decade,is considered at the general philosophical level,while the area that illustrates the situation was chosen taking into account the author’s professional orientation—ethnomusicology.The problems are divided into three groups.The first such group is devoted to new practices and information spaces that are constantly changing the situation.The second group concerns worldview aspects related to the perception of new ethnographers by the guild elders.A critique of the“decolonization”of ethnographic research as part of an overview of institutional and disciplinary barriers concludes the topics discussed in the article.

Ethnography： Linking Theory and Practices

Ethnography has become popular in educational research. Its basic notion of exploring people＇s shared culture has inspired educational researchers to draw on it when, for example, exploring teachers＇ belief of a particular educational system of a certain country. In order to understand how this methodology is employed as one of multiple research methodologies in social sciences and education, this article will first lay out its dimensions, which includes definition and characteristics. Following this, it will present the ontological and epistemological aspect of ethnography as well as its research strategies. The article concludes with an understanding that unlike positivist, the cohort of ethnography methodology postulates the ethnographers must study the world in its natural context. The task of an ethnographer is looking for something that lies beyond himself, something that he/she has to uncover by understanding multiple realities that each individual in the world may perceive.

Cultural Practice in Cote d'Ivoire: An Ethnography of the Feminization of Funeral Expenses

The“Letagonins”:a concept socially constructed to designate the“beating”women of Ivorian society,evokes those who have as their leitmotif,a self-realization through work.The purpose lies in their ability to free themselves from male domination.This concept means in one of the local Ivorian languages,notably the Gouro1:female boy.These women of Gouro ethnicity show a deep passion for the marketing of food products in Abidjan.However,behind this passion for food is their commitment to funeral expenses;a cultural activity customary lying with agnatic parentage.The transgression of custom by the latter under the prism of their social repositioning is the symbolic manifestation of the destandardization of the traditional relationship between man and woman in the organization of funerals in Gouro country,in the central West Ivorian.Understanding this relational reconfiguration has fuelled our passion as a researcher.In fact,ethnography has been mobilized as a method of observing the funeral practices of these women.In this regard,the study traces the strategies for negotiating access to the land as well as those used to negotiate access to information.

Use of Critical Ethnography to Study the PMTCT Program

Background: Despite the efforts at establishing Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) programs in Rwanda, there are still children who are becoming infected through mother-to-child transmission of HIV. The purpose of our research study was to explore the experiences of HIV positive women using PMTCT program to prevent HIV transmission in Rwanda. Methodology: In this study, a qualitative approach using a critical ethnographic design was used to answer to our research question and with the aim to discover the meaning, process, and context of the studied phenomenon. In this paper, we discussed ethnography, critical ethnography, and its related philosophical assumptions as well as illustrating the rational for the use of critical ethnography to study the PMTCT program. Critical ethnography ultimately will contribute to raising awareness on how we can prevent new infections among children born from HIV positive mothers who are using the PMTCT program. The findings suggested a wide range of challenging factors that are shaped by social, political, cultural, economic, ethnic, and gender values, and that directly and indirectly affect the uptake of the PMTCT program. While using the critical realist ontology, we discovered multiple truths about the challenging factors for HIV+ mothers experience to uptake the PMTCT program. We triangulated their experiences with the findings gathered from healthcare providers, PMTCT leaders and policymakers, field observation, and document analysis. No previous studies on this phenomenon used a critical lens to explore the reality behind a wide range of experiences of mothers using the PMTCT program to prevent HIV transmission in Rwanda. Conclusion: The critical nature of this inquiry contributed to the depth and breadth of knowledge related to the delivery of the PMTCT program to prevent MTCT of HIV.

Experimenting With International Curricula in Shanghai:Policies,Practice,and a Network Ethnography Analysis

Purpose:Drawing on a study of international schools in Shanghai,this study explores how external experiences and curricula are mobilized as policy tools to inspire local educational innovations and how these experiences are enacted differently by schools.Design/Approach/Methods:Based on a review of policy documents and interviews with school principals,senior management stakeholders,and teachers,this study identifies and compares the typologies of international schools in policy design and practice.Then,by deploying the network ethnography method following three key nodes,this study offers some explanations for the gaps between policy design and enactments.Findings:This study demonstrates the complex relations,interests,and struggles involved in constructing and shaping the meanings of international curricula within local education.The findings show the autonomy of policy networks and the difficulties of‘steering’them in a clear-cut way.Originality/Value:This study is one of the earliest attempts,if not the first,to experiment with the method of network ethnography in the context of China.These findings offer a nuanced account of the complex relations and ad hocery involved in policy learning.

Following New Philanthropy by Network Ethnography:How Did the Varkey Foundation Land and Expand in Latin America?

Purpose:New philanthropy develops new forms of policy“problem-solving”through the influx of private actors’money and ideas.It adopts singular configurations across different policy spaces,with implications for education governance.We address this phenomenon by analyzing the Varkey Foundation’s(VF)“landing”and“expansion”in Latin America.VF is a global philanthropic organization registered in the United Kingdom in 2011 with a main hub in Argentina,where it landed in 2017.Design/Approach/Methods:We use network ethnography to examine the influence of new philanthropy on education governance as this phenomenon demands new methods to grasp the“realities”of governing beyond conventional ways and understanding policy mobilities.Findings:Results indicate how VF“landed”in a little pro-market space via productive uses of policy networks.The second phase of data collection and analysis presents further consolidation of VF in Argentina,its expansion into Latin America,and its establishment as a legitimate education policy actor.Originality/Value:This study provides new evidence and insights into how policy networks enable new philanthropy to land and consolidate within national boundaries and,later,across the region as a legitimate actor in education.

从人种志、民族志到田野志——围绕“Ethnography”翻译的人类学学术论争

随着时代的发展和学科研究的扩展,"民族志"概念的译义已经产生各种误解,不能准确表述新的研究状态和不断扩展的研究对象,继续使用"民族志"一词将不利于人类学学科的普及与壮大。"Ethnography"包括了实地性、描述性等田野工作的基本特征,基于田野工作之上的"Ethnography"翻译为"田野志"较为理想。从人种志、民族志到田野志,反映了学科演变的脉络和研究对象一步步延伸的趋向,更是人类学研究理念上不断更新的标志。

省思“ethnography”的译名——兼与胡鸿保先生商榷

从20世纪初人类学与民族学引入中国至今,对其中的核心概念之一"ethnography"因为误解而导致译名混乱。在辩证审视人种学的译名、质疑规范统一译为民族志的基础上,主张应根据文本的内容和生产的时代背景采用不同的译名,在通常情况下译为"群志"较为妥当。

From Witch’s Ritual Performance to Writer’s Creation of Text—On Discussing How to“Treat Oneself”and“Cure Others”About Literature’s Function

In the post-modernistic movement to seek for the cultural root,literary anthropologists refocus and explore the original therapeutic function of literature,and make great efforts to restore the essence of disciplines’theory that“literature is human science”to the real context of cultural integration.Based on this,the article intends to treat witch’s great traditional ritual as a starting point,aiming at building up and enriching the ethnography of literary therapy.However,in order to change roles from witches to writers and promote the primitive return of literary therapy,writers make little traditional creation of text focus on interpretation of“treating themselves”and“curing others”about literature’s function.

Ethnography and the Internet： Taking Account of Emerging Technological Landscapes

This article explores the strengths of ethnography as a methodology for exploring the complex social landscape of the contemporary Intemet. The article outlines the historical development of the Intemet, from Web 1.0 to a participatory Web 2.0 embedded within everyday life and ultimately to the prospect of an autonomous Internet of Things. The benefits of an ethnographic approach for understanding such developments in depth and examining taken-for-granted assumptions are outlined alongside an account of some of the challenges that digital technologies pose for an ethnographic methodology. Amongst these challenges are the difficulties inherent in mapping out a field site that effectively captures the complexity of online/offline connections and of developing a sufficient degree of immersion and co-presence for a rich understanding to be attained. Finally, the challenges offered by the emergence of mobile Internet, algorithmic filtering of information and unpredictable flows of data are explored. It is suggested that the ethnographer of the Internet can usefully position their task as being to explore a socially constructed yet technologically mediated landscape, immersing themselves in it, interrogating how others experience it and mapping the ways in which it becomes meaningful to those who navigate its complexities.

Attendance or Tradition:Who Is Interested in Church Music Today

Religious practices in general,but primarily Christian ones,are undergoing major changes in the modern world,which is rapidly changing day by day.One of the most revealing manifestations of these changes is liturgical music,which has always been considered“traditional”,whereas the boundaries of the tradition have been subject to sharp disputes between those responsible for the church ritual and its accessories.The palette of the musical environment of modern church in terms of attendance and congregational acceptability in its sustainable development is addressed in the article based on recent research,in particular,several related studies by A.Rosenblatt,who over the past two decades has explored different aspects of church music heard in the field and presented in various hymnal books.Summary of this review allows us to consider a tangle of reasons to the preference for this or that musical style,which often completely excludes purely musical tastes and preferences.

Availability, Accessibility and Contribution of Infant Flours to the Diet of Children Aged 6-59 Months in Benin

This study assesses the nutritional composition as well as the availability and affordability of infant flour found on the market and in the households of Benin. To do that assessment, a two-step cross-sectional survey based on food ethnography methods was used. A total of 61 marketplaces were visited in seven towns and rural districts as part of the availability and affordability survey, while 400 children (aged 6 to 59 months) were surveyed to track the uses of infant flours at the household level. The results obtained reveal that pre-manufactured infant flour is sold more in urban areas (Cotonou, Porto-Novo and Parakou) than in rural ones. The average infant flours price did not vary (p = 0.985) in any given year (regardless of abundance or lean periods) nor does it vary (p = 0.133) from one point of sale to another (drugstore or supermarkets). However, the average price is found to be expensive considering the purchasing power of the households surveyed. On the other hand, the amount of ingredients used in the production of the flour types found on the market complies with the recommendations of the Codex Alimentarius, unlike the homemade ones. Pre-manufactured infant flour is found to be outside of the economic reach of most households (92%) who rely heavily on the homemade ones to feed their children. In light of the above, public authorities should help improve geographic access and pricing affordability to quality infant flour for low-income households in urban and remote areas. Moreover, awareness should be raised among mothers relative to the importance of complementary feeding through education on good nutrition practices.

The Symbiosis of Sacred Space and Secular Experience-Reflecting on Ethnographic Filming

Based on the experience of ethnographic filming,this article outlines the dynamic process of the protection and development of Baima Tibetan traditional villages with the help of iconic descriptions of Baima Tibetans’daily lives and sacrificial activities,and explores how Baima Tibetans inherit their culture while adapting to social development with imagery means during rural revitalization,and how the locals integrate sacred space and secular experience in order to construct their own cultural symbols for the sake of embracing the new era.As far as anthropology-ethnographic descriptions of embodiment are concerned,traditional text research has limitations.In comparison,video graphic anthropology has natural advantages.Its advantages not only lie in the means of images,but also lie in the ability to connect the“sense of things”,mind and nature,realizing the interaction between mind and things,and mentality and object.The visual ethnography is an important research method for anthropological research to enter the world of his other.This is also an important way to describe the integration and symbiosis of local subjectivity,local sacred space,and secular experience.

互联网研究:中国人类学发展新路径

西方的互联网研究早于中国,并且更加注重理论和方法的积累,相比之下国内的研究则处于刚刚起步的阶段。与此同时,人类学的发展正面临一个新的研究机遇——迈向互联网领域。互联网人类学的发展不仅仅提供了一个更加具有前瞻性的学科视野,同时也提供了一个能够整合多方资源,促成学科内部、学科之间乃至学界与商界及政府之间沟通、对话的平台。

关于人类学学科定位的相关问题

基于对人类学的哲学思考——人类学的发展正在经过"肯定—否定—肯定"的指向发展,依据"总体人类学"的学科分类,人类学学科的科学知识既有自然科学的性质也有社会、人文科学的性质;如果必须在科学性质上对其进行分类,总体原则只能是依研究者所研究对象的性质而定。鉴于人类学学科定位的重要性,对"ethnography"与"ethnology"作定性说明很有必要。

On Speaking as a Culturally Constructed Act

The ethnography of speaking mainly studies the function of languages in the communicative practices in different ethnic groups. The core of the ethnography of speaking is the communicative relativity. The ethnography of speaking is very important in the effective communication study. It is also the theoretical framework of Hymes' ethnography of speaking.

Forest utilization patterns and socio-economic status of the Van Gujjar tribe in sub-Himalayan tracts of Uttarakhand,India

The present study was conducted on the Van Gujjar tribe inhabiting a sub-Himalayan tract in the North Western Himalayas of Uttarakhand State, India. The Van Gujjars have been practicing transmigration over hundreds of years. They migrate each year with their households and livestock between summer and winter pastures. A few years ago with the announcement of the establish- ment of the Rajaji National Park, the tribe has been forced out of the forest area and rehabilitated outside the park, which has affected their lifestyle. The newly established rehabilitation colony in the Gandikhata area of Haridwar District of Uttarakhand State was taken as a case study. The aims of the present study were to understand and evaluate the socio-economic status of the Van Gujjars in their newly established rehabilitation colony, the utilization pattern of forest resources by the tribe and their relative preference for selec- tive trees for various uses. A total of 176 households were interviewed （giving equal weight to all economic classes and family every size） by using pre-structured questionnaires. The education level was very low （12.9%） and the average income per household was recorded as Rs. 36000 （approximately $ 803） per year. The major source of income was dairy production （80.6%） followed by labor employment （13.9%）, NTFPs （4.2%） and agricultural production （1.4%）. More than 90% of fuel wood and fodder is extracted from the forest. The average fuel wood and fodder consumptions per household per day were recorded as 25.86 and 21.58 kg, respectively. A total of 35 species of cultivated plants and 89 species of wild plants were found to be utilized as food sources. Selectively 25 wild tree species are well known as being used by the Van Gujjars as fodder, fuel wood, agricultural implements, household articles, dye, medicine, fiber and other products. According to their utility value, the most preferred and useful tree species is Ougeinia oojeinensis, followed by Terminalia alata, Bombax ceiba, Shorea robusta and Dalbergia sissoo,

Outreach channels for polar science:an expedition to Kerguelen Islands as a case study

Polar science outreach is strongly needed, because besides promoting the utility of polar studies for society as a whole, it can generate public demand for new projects and expeditions. The dissemination of polar discoveries should be reinforced in countries without polar territories and for which polar science might not be a priority. In this pilot study （N =182 participants） we have contrasted the opinions of polar scientists （French, Belgian, British, Canadian, Australian, German, Italian and Spanish researchers） with those of a potentially interested public （graduate students of pedagogy and biology）, in order to assess if the communication channels employed by polar researchers to make their results public align with those used by non-polar experts for learning about polar discoveries. The results revealed that scientific publications and presentations were considered a priority by the researchers, and these scientific communication channels were preferentially employed. Only a minority of researchers thought that non-scientific publications might be a good communication resource. In contrast, both groups of students, which considered polar research important but not a top priority, employed the Internet as their main channel for information about polar discoveries. Students assessed the use of polar discoveries as positive for educational purposes at both Primary and Secondary levels. The information presently received by students was perceived as being too generalist and the main suggestions to improve outreach in this field, in addition to the use of Internet, were more rapid dissemination of new discoveries.