科技人类学:探索研究的几点体会

就科学技术人类学研究对象的选择、研究重点的关注、事项研究和一般文化研究的关系,进行了探讨.说明研究要聚焦于科学技术又不拘泥于纯粹的科学技术,无论是机构研究还是事项研究,在研究过程中都有再聚集的过程.研究的关注重点是人和人群,一般说来是和研究对象直接关联的工作班子,但是也会涉及其他,不同的人群和工作班子的研究有不同的侧重,在传统科学技术文化事项的研究中世家研究有重要价值.事项研究要能够和一般文化研究相联系,在其中象征和符号的解释特别有价值,但不是唯一的解释柜架.最后说明人类学方法对于从事研究科学技术人员的重要意义,强调这种方法可以帮助研究人员更加接近中国人民和中国实际.

Anthropology of Science and Technology:Some Ideas about Our Exploring Research

The article discussed with the choices of objectives of the researches,the fist the concerns in research,the studies of scientific institutions and items in science and technology and their relations with the general cultural text.First,it is important to know that the researchers must focus on science and technology but not restricted their mind only to the pure scientific and technological items.Nor the studies of the institutions or the studies of items,all need to renew their focus in the process of study.The stresses of the studies are the people ,the groups of different peoples.Generally, it is the working group directly tighten to the items studied,otherwise it involving different groups in a wide survey.As to the different groups the concerns are differentiated.To the traditional arts or craft,it is very important to do the studies of aristocratic families.Doing the study of items and institutions you must keep attention to the general cultural text,In the explanations on the relations of the both,the symbolic or the signal ones is worthful but not unique.It is of great meaning to use anthropologist method in studying science and technology that is introducing the researchers more closely to Chinese Peoples and the reality of China.