民族志与"我"和"我的叙述"--以刘新《自我的他性:当代中国的自我的谱系》为例

当前民族志文体的创新不断涌现,刘新的<自我的他性>一书可归为实验民族志一换类.其不仅成功地将转型时期中国人的存在状态概括为"自我的他性",而且对人类学民族志方法在新时期的发展提出了极具启发性的见解对人物的分析应当发展成为人类学理解社会和历史的特殊方式;经典民族志所呈现的"真实"的概念需要重新加以审视;反对在民族志中将主体性当作一种类似实体或本质的东西,而应采取历史主义的立场.

Ethnography, "Self" and "Self Narration"

New styles of writing ethnology are constantly emerging, of which Liu Xin's The otherness of self: A Genealogy of self in Contemporary Chinacan be classified into experimental ethnology. In this book, Liu Xin has not only successfully summarized the existence of the Chinese in the transitional period as "the otherness of self" but also brought up some enlightening views on the development of ethnographical methods in the new period as follows: the analysis of the characters should develop into a special method in anthropology for understanding a given society or history; there should be a re-xamination of the concept of "truthfulness" in the classical ethnographies; a historical standpoint should be adopted to avoid taking subjectivity as a kind of entity or nature in ethnographies.