我的理论错了

IF 1.9 1区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

American Ethnologist Pub Date : 2024-12-23 DOI:10.1111/amet.13378

Carole McGranahan

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摘要

理论在当代人类学中占有中心的地位，尽管有些奇怪。它是必要的和有价值的，能够表达和使用来自实地研究的见解。但它有时也令人害怕，因为它很困难，也以排他性的方式使用。在这篇评论中，我回顾了我对理论的理解和与理论的关系是如何随着时间的推移而变化的，主要是通过对民族志的理解，因为它一直是理论性的。在考虑了什么是理论和民族志，以及故事对理论的重要性之后，我提供了我所学到的10个经验教训，这些经验教训塑造了我的理论实践。

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I was wrong about theory

Theory occupies a central, if curious place in contemporary anthropology. It is needed and valuable, enabling the articulation and use of insights from field research. But it is also feared at times as hard, and also used in exclusionary ways. In this commentary, I review how my understanding of and relationship to theory have changed over time, primarily through an understanding of ethnography as always already theoretical. After considering what theory and ethnography are, as well as the importance of story to theory, I then offer 10 lessons I've learned that shape my theoretical practice.

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American Ethnologist ANTHROPOLOGY-

CiteScore

2.40

自引率

8.70%

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期刊介绍： American Ethnologist is a quarterly journal concerned with ethnology in the broadest sense of the term. Articles published in the American Ethnologist elucidate the connections between ethnographic specificity and theoretical originality, and convey the ongoing relevance of the ethnographic imagination to the contemporary world.