Introduction: Ethnographies of power and the powerful

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Critique of Anthropology Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI:10.1177/0308275X211038605

Matthew Archer, D. Souleles

引用次数: 4

Abstract

This introduction suggests that anthropology often assumes that the people anthropologists work with are relatively powerless. Due to this default, anthropologists tend to design their research and theorizing to reflect a relatively powerless other. We suggest that the accumulated scholarship on studying up, that is, studying those who structure the lives of many others, offers more accurate ways to theorize power and its exercise as partial and situated, as well as more plural and productive ways to imagine anthropological practice and ethics. We also suggest that this line of thinking gives us some ground to speak to the larger direction of the discipline.

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引言：权力与权贵的民族志

这篇引言表明，人类学通常认为与人类学家合作的人相对无能为力。由于这种默认，人类学家倾向于设计他们的研究和理论来反映相对无能为力的另一个人。我们认为，积累的关于向上学习的学术，即研究那些构建许多其他人生活的人，提供了更准确的方法来将权力及其行使理论化为局部和情境，以及更多元和富有成效的方法来想象人类学实践和伦理学。我们还建议，这一思路为我们提供了一些基础，可以向更大的学科方向说话。

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Critique of Anthropology ANTHROPOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Critique of Anthropology is dedicated to the development of anthropology as a discipline that subjects social reality to critical analysis. It publishes academic articles and other materials which contribute to an understanding of the determinants of the human condition, structures of social power, and the construction of ideologies in both contemporary and past human societies from a cross-cultural and socially critical standpoint. Non-sectarian, and embracing a diversity of theoretical and political viewpoints, COA is also committed to the principle that anthropologists cannot and should not seek to avoid taking positions on political and social questions.