站在可预测的一边

IF 0.2 Q4 ANTHROPOLOGY
Maja Petrović-Šteger, F. Ringel, I. Rajković, Tea Škokić, S. Potkonjak, J. Greenberg
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为了能够情境化和理解社会世界,人类学家密切关注。我们观察个人和社区如何相互联系,以及他们的想法。我们研究亲密的和主观的,以及人们创造自己和世界的大尺度宇宙学。我们的参与式方法和反思性分析记录了人们推理和行动的复杂、复杂、模式和随机方面。从人类学的角度来看,这些活动被认为不仅提供了对当前(在其历史轨迹上)的批判性描述,而且还提供了对社会未来的可能暗示。换句话说,人类学分析不仅是描述,而且是预测。这一立场文件的重点是预期的概念,可预测性,和可能性在人类学。它问的是,在我们对野外地点进行预测的方式中,建立了什么样的方法和理论假设。它邀请读者考虑某些预期实践对我们所研究的人和现象以及对学科的影响。本文的核心是提出了不同的方式来关注预测未来的愿景。通过反思我在塞尔维亚的民族志和分析之旅,我试图解释为什么我目前在该领域和学科中都提出了如此多的可预测性和可能性问题。我的愿望是展开一场讨论,探讨培养对看似出现在可预测方面的事物的关注的价值。
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On the Side of Predictable
In order to be able to contextualize and understand social worlds, anthropologists pay close attention. We observe how individuals and communities relate to each other and to their ideas. We study the intimate and subjective, as well as the large-scale cosmologies by which people make themselves and the world. Our participatory methods and reflective analysis document the complex, intricate, patterned, and also random aspects of people’s reasoning and actions. These activities, on anthropology’s part, supposedly offer not only critical descriptions of the present (on its historical trajectories), but possible intimations of a society’s future. Anthropological analysis, in other words, not only describes but also anticipates. This position paper focuses on the notions of anticipation, predictability, and possibility in anthropology. It asks what methodological and theoretical assumptions are built into our ways of making predictions about our field sites. It invites the reader to consider the effects certain anticipatory practices have for the people and phenomena we study as well as for the discipline. Centrally, the paper proposes different ways of attending to visions that anticipate the future. By reflecting on my ethnographic and analytical journeys in Serbia, I attempt to explain why I currently make so much of questions of predictability and possibility in both the field and the discipline. My desire is to open up a discussion on the value of cultivating attention to what seems to emerge on the side of predictable.
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