How to think about people who don’t want to be studied: Further reflections on studying up

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Critique of Anthropology Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI:10.1177/0308275X211038045

D. Souleles

引用次数: 4

Abstract

It is now routine for anthropologists to study those who exercise power and control wealth and status in any number of societies. Implicit in anthropology’s long-standing commitment to apprehending societies in their totality, and explicit in the call to study up, paying attention to power is just one of the routine things that anthropologists do in the course of their fieldwork. That said, many theoretical and ethical norms in the discipline are calibrated to allow researchers to both know about and protect those with relatively little power who made up much of anthropology’s original topical area of interests. By contrast, studying people who exercise power entails special ethical and theoretical consideration. This article enumerates some of those considerations, and suggests that anthropologists need to have coherent theories of social action in addition to theories of social meaning. The article also suggests that some canonical disciplinary ethical norms are inappropriate for the study of the powerful for empirical and practical reasons.

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如何看待不想被学习的人:对学习的进一步思考

对于人类学家来说，研究那些在任何社会中行使权力、控制财富和地位的人，现在都是例行公事。人类学家长期以来一直致力于从整体上理解社会，并明确呼吁进行研究，这其中隐含着对权力的关注，这只是人类学家在田野调查过程中所做的常规工作之一。也就是说，这门学科中的许多理论和伦理规范都是经过校准的，以允许研究人员了解和保护那些构成人类学最初感兴趣的主题领域的权力相对较小的人。相比之下，研究行使权力的人需要特殊的伦理和理论考虑。本文列举了其中的一些考虑，并建议人类学家除了社会意义理论之外，还需要有关于社会行动的连贯理论。文章还指出，由于经验和实践的原因，一些规范的学科伦理规范不适合研究权贵。

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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.