Dance Anthropology 与 Ethnochoreology

作为新兴的舞蹈研究领域,在世界范围内方兴未艾的"民族舞蹈学"(Ethnochoreology)和"舞蹈人类学"(Dance Anthropology)彼此有交叉也容易有概念和认识上的混淆。这两门学科都是从美国率先发展起来的,这亦反映出这些学问在创立之初追随音乐学领域建立起来的"非欧洲主流舞蹈"的研究视角和取向。尽管彼此交叉,但我们还是看到了在音乐学领域中这两门学问彼此交融而又各自成型的理论诉求。这样两种学问彼此交叉的现象源于它们在研究对象上的接近和研究方法上的趋同,情况较为复杂。对于中国舞蹈文化的实践而言,这些新兴的学科都给我们带来崭新的研究视角和方法,对这些学科概念的认识和梳理,会让我们更容易地看清这些学科的内涵及其差异。

The Historical Development of Literary Anthropology in China

From a perspective of the correlation between literature and anthropology,this paper unveils the background and characteristics of literary anthropology as an emerging subject.Through contrastive analysis of two correlative fields,this paper focuses on "literary issues" and "anthropological issues," highlights literature's anthropological turn and the interaction between anthropology and literature,and reviews the brief history of literary anthropology in contemporary China.

Exchange of Presents:The Name and Nature of Chinese Red from the Perspective of Anthropology of Art

Chinese red refers to a key visual symbol of the multiethnic Chinese nation. From naming to local color preference, the visual experience accumulation in Chinese red lies not just in the solitary and fossilized historical relics, but in a ceaseless and dynamic process of formation, recognition, conversion and transmission. Moreover, the symbolic constitution and ethnic identi cation of Chinese red exempli es historical accomplishments in local exchanges of artifacts, technologies, systems, and outlooks with foreign partners. Therefore, as part of the country's cultural heritage, Chinese red also encompasses two aspects, cultural integration based on its identification and artistic productivity with a focus on di erentiation.

Cultural Sharing, Connectivity and Road Expansion——Cultural Transformation and Anthropology Study of World Care from the Belt and Road Initiative

The era of cultural sharing marks itself mainly in the following three aspects: First, the virtual presence which bridges the world together and further broadens our horizons to observe the world in an even more extensive way. Second, the formerly stable structural relationship between peripheral regions and central regions gradually grows uncertain. Third, the establishment of cyberized roads or the cyberized expansion of roads leads the advance toward a global connectivity where the virtual world closely interacts with the real world. After "the Belt" concept comes into being, the anthropologists must upgrade their research from previously established fixed-point perspective to a more extensive observation over the "Belt" or a wider range, while the concept of "the Road" encourages anthropologists to study the culture of the other half of the world, namely, to read the world history as a whole new picture from a Chinese or eastern point of view. It is necessary for anthropology to break the geological and cultural borders in the real world to extend its antenna to a more extensive range, which will also bring the "otherness" of this field to a more prominent and obvious play. It is inevitable that all human cultures are about to take a core standing in the Belt and Road Initiative.

Digital Forensics for Skulls Classification in Physical Anthropology Collection Management

The size,shape,and physical characteristics of the human skull are distinct when considering individual humans.In physical anthropology,the accurate management of skull collections is crucial for storing and maintaining collections in a cost-effective manner.For example,labeling skulls inaccurately or attaching printed labels to skulls can affect the authenticity of collections.Given the multiple issues associated with the manual identification of skulls,we propose an automatic human skull classification approach that uses a support vector machine and different feature extraction methods such as gray-level co-occurrence matrix features,Gabor features,fractal features,discrete wavelet transforms,and combinations of features.Each underlying facial bone exhibits unique characteristics essential to the face’s physical structure that could be exploited for identification.Therefore,we developed an automatic recognition method to classify human skulls for consistent identification compared with traditional classification approaches.Using our proposed approach,we were able to achieve an accuracy of 92.3–99.5%in the classification of human skulls with mandibles and an accuracy of 91.4–99.9%in the classification of human skills without mandibles.Our study represents a step forward in the construction of an effective automatic human skull identification system with a classification process that achieves satisfactory performance for a limited dataset of skull images.

Functions and Characteristics of Verbal Discourse:From Rhetoric to Anthropology

The essay describes a common research field between rhetoric and anthropology composed by these elements:(1)the forms and model of verbal language;(2)the analysis of the peculiar properties of orality;(3)the elements of distinction between orality and literacy;(4)the study of factors and conditions that make the spoken word effective,and in the fact that it can exercise persuasive power over the people to whom it is addressed.These topics have been analyzed by prominent authors such as Gorgias,Aristotle,Cicero,Perelman,Goody,Lévi-Strauss.

Paleontology and Paleoanthropology Research

The Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)takes pride in its timehonored academic research covering an extensive and refined disciplinary spectrum of paleontology and paleoanthropology,spanning from invertebrate paleontology,vertebrate paleontology,biostratigraphy and chronostratigraphy,to paleoanthropology.Over the past four decades,a lot of heart-stopping discoveries have emerged from these fields,thanks to the long-term efforts made by generations of CAS scholars and their cooperators.

Observation of Medical Anthropology on Covid-19 Variants Epidemic Prevention Based on the Community-Level Governance Experience of Shenzhen in 2022

In recent years,the thinking and research on the prevention and control of Covid-19 Variants Epidemic is not only the technical operation level discussion in the public health and disease prevention academic circles,there is also growing academic interest in comparative research on public health governance and different paradigms.Based on the experience of Shenzhen's epidemic prevention and control team at the community governance level in 2022,based on the observational perspective of medical anthropology,and through comparison with Hong Kong's anti-epidemic experience,this paper deeply analyzes the function and impact of traditional medical methods in epidemic prevention and control.Then the authors cite the paradigm of‘systems medicine’and research results in recent years,closely link the research topic with community governance in methodological sense,so as to promote public health and epidemic prevention research that aim at the combination of technology and humanities.

人类学文化研究的基本路径——地方性知识的采集与利用

人类学的文化研究是以地方性知识的挖掘分析为主要任务。在文化研究发展过程中,研究者逐渐创建了一套采集与利用地方性知识的理论方法体系。这套理论方法能帮助研究者立足经验主义的治学原理,通过对特定人群社会生活实践的近距离参与,采集包含地方性知识的田野信息,再从田野信息到文本资料的加工转化过程中完成对地方性知识及其功用和意义的客观科学解释。这种地方性知识的采集与利用能帮助研究者有效进行文化研究所需要资料的挖掘、整理和分析,从而形成有助于传统文化创造性转化的创新成果。

民族志动画中的跨越“在场”与记忆“再现”——基于湘西苗族仙娘仪式影像的实践反思

文化记忆是一个民族凝聚群体、实现文化认同的重要内核,其中族群仪式作为一种具体的文化行为深嵌于特定的社会情景场域,对集体记忆和文化记忆的构筑起到关键作用,一直是人类学研究的重要议题。民族志动画通过一套特别的视觉媒介符号体系进行知识生产与意义呈现,在表达回忆、经历等抽象经验方面可跨越“在场”时空屏障,为新时代的影视人类学提供新的范式实验和新的模态可能。基于湘西苗族仙娘仪式影像实践,通过与文化持有者开展互为主体性合作和反身性对话,可生成饱含原住民真切情感的民族志动画影像文本,在影像志的“抒写”中实现仪式记忆的“再现”与族群文化记忆的表达。