傷心人類學

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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。 (查看原文)

  蓝色屋檐 1赞 2020-07-13 17:19:41

• The vulnerable observer par excellence, Rolf Carlé incarnates the central dilemma of all efforts at witnessing. In the midst of a massacre, in the face of torture, in the eye of a hurricane, in the aftermath of an earthquake, or even, say, when horror looms apparently more gently in memories that won't recede and so come pouring forth in the late-night quiet of a kitchen, as a storyteller opens her heart to a story listener, recounting hurts that cut deep and raw into the gullies of the self, do you, the observer, stay behind the lens of the camera, switch on the tape recorder, keep pen in hand? Are there limitsof respect, piety, pathosthat should not be crossed, even to leave a record? But if you can't stop the horror, shouldn't you at least document it? (查看原文)

  幼儿园园长™ 2012-12-08 09:46:05

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