经济人类学对商品分析的文化视野

商品并不是纯物质的对象 ,它含有观念性的东西。商品的使用与某种精神状态或社会情境关联 ,它展现着一定的社会意义 ,表现出一定的社会制约。经济人类学强调商品既提供生存必需 ,又勾画社会关系界线的双重作用的研究 ,并对商品使用的心理因素或社会属性提出有意义的讨论 ,针对为什么相同的自然资源基础 ,会在不同的民族共同体中 ,产生出极不相同的经济过程 ;而对同一物品的不同使用方式 ,也塑造了差异极大的生产类型的问题 ,开辟了一条充分理解人们为什么需要商品的道路 ,提供了一个更为全面的视角来审视人类社会经济过程。

Economic Anthropology and Commodity Cultural Analysis

From the viewpoint of economic anthropology, commodity is not a pure material object;it contains conceptual factors. Commodity is often used by people in some state of spirit and in some social situation;it shows certain social implication and displays certain social limitation.The paper introduces some basic research in economic anthropology and makes a primary exploration into some psychological factors and social properties of commodity, including different economic processes of the same natural resources in different national communities and different production types of the same commodity. The paper points out that economic anthropology opens up a new road to the understanding of the human demands of commodity and provides a comprehensive viewpoint to human social economic processes.