合作的想象

对民族志进行反思的过程,包括了对田野研究中民族志学者与当地报告人之间的合作关系的重新思考和定位,对与民族志文本伴随始终的想象特质的正视和承认,以及对民族志所承担的任务和作用的重新认识。在全球化的当下,人类学的民族志是民族志学者和对自己的角色有主见、有认识的地方合作者共同制造的想象,而民族志的功能则是对这种合作的关系进行深入的分析、研究,作为一个媒介而不是真理的知识,让人们能够了解、研究这种合作关系。

Collaborative Imagination

The re-evaluation of ethnographic study focuses on the re-evaluation of the collaborative relationship between ethnographers and the native residents or so-called native reporters,keeping track with the imaginable faculties of the ethnographic context as well as re-evaluating the role and functions of ethnography.Under globalization,anthropological ethnography can be considered a process of imagination made by both ethnographers and the native reporters who know their roles and how to cooperate with researchers.The functions of ethnography are to research on this kind of cooperative relationship between researchers and natives.Ethnography,as a medium,rather than the knowledge of truth can better help reveal the collaborative relationship.