Eloquently interweaving ethnography and memoir, award-winning anthropologist Ruth Behar offers a new theory and practice for humanistic anthropology. She proposes an anthropology that is lived and written in a personal voice. She does so in the hope that it will lead us toward greater depth of understanding and feeling, not only in contemporary anthropology, but in all acts of witnessing.
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作者簡介露思.貝哈
Ruth Behar
美國密西根大學(University of Michigan)人類學教授,同時具有民族誌學者、散文作家、編輯、詩人等多重身分。《解譯女人:帶著艾斯波讓拉的故事穿越邊境》(Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza’s Story)讓她享譽全國。曾榮獲麥克阿瑟研究員獎(MacArthur Fellows Award)以及古根漢獎助(John Simon Guggenheim fellowship)。
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对人类学家来说,书写死亡可能是获取反身性一种特别有效的方式。就像费边建议的那样:“构建一门死亡人类学,我们朝着实际的死亡意识——我们的死亡——迈进。”在丧失亲友的过程中,不管是我自己的还是研究中的,我试着与死亡靠得更近,距离如此之近,以致于不再觉得死亡有什么。不过这里也存在障碍,死亡是最难书写的主题。
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