规模和数量

IF 1 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Social Analysis Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI:10.3167/sa.2020.640104

J. Bristley

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摘要

最近的许多人类学反映了尺度是如何有争议的，是异质社会互动的偶然产物，而不是早期学术中描述的“本体论给定”(sensu Carr和Lempert)。本文探讨了数字在测量尺度形成中的重要性。这是基于蒙古牧民的牲畜计数规模，以10000为基础，或称t m[中文]:一个定性和定量的术语，表示丰富和丰富。借鉴关于数字人类学的文献，并将其与尺度和意识形态的研究进行对话，本文认为数字不仅仅是校准已有尺度的一种手段。相反，作为一种被赋予了特殊品质和概念稳定性的东西，数字可以被用来产生充满意识形态色彩的测量尺度。

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Scale and Number

Much recent anthropology reflects on how scales are contested and contingent products of heterogeneous social interactions, not the ‘ontological givens’ (sensu Carr and Lempert) described in earlier scholarship. This article examines the importance of number in the formation of scales of measurement. It does so regarding a pastoral Mongolian scale of livestock-counting based on the number ten thousand, or tüm[en]: a qualitative-cum-quantitative term suggesting plenty and abundance. Drawing on literature on the anthropology of number, and bringing it into dialogue with studies of scale and ideology, this article argues that number is not just a means for calibrating pre-existing scales. Instead, as something endowed with particular qualities and conceptual stability, number can be mobilized to produce ideologically charged scales of measurement.

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Social Analysis ANTHROPOLOGY-

CiteScore

2.20

自引率

7.10%

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审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Analysis is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to exploring the analytical potentials of anthropological research. It encourages contributions grounded in original empirical research that critically probe established paradigms of social and cultural analysis. The journal expresses the best that anthropology has to offer by exploring in original ways the relationship between ethnographic materials and theoretical insight. By forging creative and critical engagements with cultural, political, and social processes, it also opens new avenues of communication between anthropology and the humanities as well as other social sciences. The journal publishes four issues per year, including regular Special Issues on particular themes. The Editors welcome individual articles that focus on diverse topics and regions, reflect varied theoretical approaches and methods, and aim to appeal widely within anthropology and beyond. Proposals for Special Issues are selected by the Editorial Board through an annual competitive call.