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03132200 |
学分 |
2 |
| 英文名称 |
Social Anthropology and China Studies |
| 先修课程 |
无 |
| 中文简介 |
社会人类学原是与体质人类学、考古人类学、语言人类学并列的人类学的四大分科之一。二十世纪初, 它逐步从广义的人类学中分离出来，成为一门社会人文学科。“社会人类学”一词首先出现于英国。由马林诺夫斯基和布朗创立的功能主义及结构-功能主义，构成了英国现代社会人类学的方法论基础。其特色在于对小型社区或族群的透视以及对文化的整体观和制度关系分析的强调。二十世纪初，吴文藻、费孝通等先贤将功能主义的社会人类学思想与方法引入中国，开启了中国社会的人类学研究。本门课程围绕中国人类学研究的经典议题与文本展开阅读，带领学生理解社会人类学中国研究的发展脉络，基本关怀以及最新发展。 |
| 英文简介 |
Social anthropology initially emerged as one of the four major sub-disciplines of anthropology, alongside physical anthropology, archaeology, and linguistic anthropology. During the early 20th century, it progressively diverged from the broader anthropological framework to establish itself as an independent social scientific discipline. Functionalism and structural-functionalism, as developed by Bronis？aw Malinowski and A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, have constituted the theoretical and methodological foundation of modern British social anthropology. Its distinctive characteristics include an emphasis on the micro-level analysis of small-scale communities or ethnic groups, as well as a holistic approach to culture and an analytical focus on the interrelationships of social institutions.
In the early twentieth century, functionalist perspectives and methodologies of social anthropology were introduced to China by pioneering sociologists and anthropologists including Wu Wenzao and Fei Xiaotong, thereby laying the groundwork for anthropological research on Chinese society. This course is designed to revolve around the classic themes and seminal texts of Chinese anthropological research, guiding students to comprehend the developmental trajectory, core concerns, and contemporary advancements of social anthropology in China. |
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In the early twentieth century, functionalist perspectives and methodologies of social anthropology were introduced to China by pioneering sociologists and anthropologists including Wu Wenzao and Fei Xiaotong, thereby laying the groundwork for anthropological research on Chinese society. This course is designed to revolve around the classic themes and seminal texts of Chinese anthropological research, guiding students to comprehend the developmental trajectory, core concerns, and contemporary advancements of social anthropology in China.
Session 1：China as the Other （8学时）
The emergence of social anthropological research on China was a multifaceted process, driven by the confluence of national imperatives and broader global intellectual currents. It laid the foundation for a vibrant and evolving field that continues to engage with the complexities of Chinese society in the contemporary era. This introductory session is designed to contextualize the relationship between social anthropology and China within the broader intellectual histories of anthropology and sinology.
Session 2：Anthropologies in/of China（8学时）
With China’s transition from dynastic empire to a nation-state around the turn of the 20th century, the pursuit of a definition of ‘Chinese nation’ became a pressing concern for China’s burgeoning disciplines of anthropology and ethnology. Early Chinese anthropological knowledge-making was centred around reworking the Hua-Yi distinction, or sino-barbarian dichotomy, inherited from the imperial cosmography of a ‘central nation’ (huaxia) and it four neighbouring barbarians (siyi), into the concept of ‘Chinese Nation’ (Zhonghua Minzu) as a unified yet multi-ethnic community. The proposition of ‘Chinese Nation’ then led to a new dichotomy between the Han Chinese majority and non-Han ethnic minorities (shaoshu minzu), the latter regarded as the ‘other from within’, hence the subject of anthropological study. This session explores the other pathways of ‘doing anthropology’ in China during the 1930s and 1940s, particularly the ‘historical ethnological school’ based in the Academia Sinica.
Session 3：Views from the Periphery（8学时）
From the 1950s to the 1980s, social anthropology of China entered a phase of ‘viewing the center from the periphery’. Anthropologists from the UK and the United States constituted the main research cohort and they conducted fieldwork in overseas Chinese communities, to understand the overall structure and belief systems of Chinese society. This peripheral vantage point, despite its obvious limitations, also yielded significant intellectual advantages. The reliance on indirect methods compelled these foreign ‘China anthropologists’ to engage more actively with secondary sources, particularly historical documents and ethnographic accounts and hence led to an integration of historical and anthropological approaches.
Session 4：China as the Subject（8学时）
This final session is dedicated to exploring the emerging trajectories and advancements within the field of Chinese anthropology. It encompasses several key areas of contemporary focus, including civilizational anthropology, the study of the Chinese diaspora and overseas ethnography, as well as recent endeavors to cultivate a distinctively Chinese perspective within the global landscape of anthropological theory. All these efforts challenge Western anthropological paradigms by integrating Chinese intellectual resources and creating new interpretative frameworks.
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课堂表现 20%
期末论文 80%
期末论文 7000-8000字
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