Using cultural anthropology to analyze debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, George E. Marcus and Michael M. J. Fischer look closely at cultural anthropology's past accomplishments, its current predicaments, its future direction, and the insights it has to offer other fields of study. The result is a provocative work that is important for scholars interested in a critical approach to social science, art, literature, and history, as well as anthropology. This second edition considers new challenges to the field which have arisen since the book's original publication.
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本书作者是美国Rice大学两位著名人类学教授马尔库斯和费彻尔。他们是人类学的后现代思潮的主要代表人物,在国际人类学界享有很高声誉。马尔库斯和费彻尔的专长是民族志方法论与文化批评,他们曾在多篇论文和《写文化》(1986)等著作中提出人类学与人文学科的文本问题,对于人类学学科的反思和重构作出了重要贡献。
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在实验性的转换和批评的可能性里,我们把民族志理解为经验研究和写作的一种训练工具,它探究艺术和哲学关注的问题,但它的角度不是超社会的思辨,而是对世界范围内的不同文化的地方情境的独特刻画。
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