Risk and its others: Toward an anthropology of “protection” in rural Mongolia

IF 2.6 1区 社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY
Joseph Bristley
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Abstract

Anthropological studies of risk have long focused on how people respond to and aim to manage potential harm. But despite its long and important genealogy, this article suggests that risk can pose an analytic blind spot that potentially occludes other ways of understanding how people aim to live well in potentially harmful situations. In doing so, it argues for anthropological attention to a Mongolian “protection” concept: an optimistic idea that imaginatively tethers defense against harm with prospects of living well in the conditions that follow. This approach aims to recast and deepen anthropological understanding of how people conceptualize, deal with, and move beyond harms encountered in everyday life.

风险及其其他因素:蒙古农村“保护”人类学研究
长期以来,风险的人类学研究一直关注于人们如何应对潜在的危害。但是,尽管风险有着悠久而重要的谱系,但这篇文章表明,风险可能构成一个分析盲点,潜在地阻碍了理解人们如何在潜在有害的情况下努力生活的其他方式。在这样做的过程中,它主张人类学关注蒙古人的“保护”概念:一种乐观的想法,想象地将防御伤害与在随后的条件下生活得更好的前景联系起来。这种方法旨在重塑和深化人类学对人们如何概念化、处理和超越日常生活中遇到的伤害的理解。
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American Anthropologist
American Anthropologist ANTHROPOLOGY-
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4.30
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114
期刊介绍: American Anthropologist is the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association, reaching well over 12,000 readers with each issue. The journal advances the Association mission through publishing articles that add to, integrate, synthesize, and interpret anthropological knowledge; commentaries and essays on issues of importance to the discipline; and reviews of books, films, sound recordings and exhibits.
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