上海外国语大学区域与国别研究—聚焦欧洲人类学
主持:余华 博士 (语言研究院)
简介:三十年前,在“西方”社会做人类学研究被看成是一种自我放纵的奢侈,欧洲研究和北美研究的学者认为欧洲研究和人类学是不相干的。这种态度源于对人类学的误解,但现在这样的误解已销声匿迹。然而,在中国,对理解欧洲大陆及其社会、文化问题至关重要的欧洲人类学却还未认真展开。教授将讲述欧洲民族志如何开启对构建欧洲身份的日常生活过程的深度理解与赏析,如何更清晰地理解欧洲联盟的活力与失败。
“The Anthropology of Europe”
Until three decades ago, doing anthropology in “Western” societies was considered a self-indulgent luxury, and one that scholars working in Europe and North America in other disciplines saw as irrelevant. That attitude was based on a misconception of what anthropology is about, and has largely vanished, yet in China the anthropological study of Europe in particular, although vital to the understanding of the European continent and its social and cultural problems, is not well advanced. The speaker will suggest how a reading of ethnographic studies would initiate a deeper appreciation of the everyday processes that constitute European identities, and would lead to a better understanding of the dynamics and failures of European integration.