贝特森( Gregory Bateson, 1904 ~1980 ) 是我最喜欢的人类学家之一。他的代表作《纳文》在西方人类学众多的人物和庞杂的著述里, (Naven: The Culture of Iatmul People of New 如果我们把兴趣放在田野作业和民族志的创意Guinea as Revealed Through a Study of“Naven ” Ceremonial) 是我读过的智慧含量最高的一部民族志。从他的田野作业到这部大作的完成历程, 我们能够几近切骨铭心地感到民族志是怎样“磨”成的。现在《纳文》中文版即将由商务印书馆出版, 我们可以方便地从他的《纳文》文本清楚地看见他如何细致地琢磨他的有限的素材, 我们却想借助其他一些文献来呈现他的田野作业的“苦旅”。
参考文献:
Bateson, Gregory. 1958. N aven: A S urvey of the P roblem Suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a New Guinea Tribe drawn from three point of view. Stanford, California:
Stanford University Press
Lipset, David. 1980. Gregory Bateson: The Legacy of a Scientist. Englewood Cliffs, N. J. : Princeton Hall.
Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1932, “ Introduction”, in R. F. Fortune.s Sorcerers of Dobu: The SocialAnthropology of theDobu Islanders of theWestern Pacific, Dutton & Co. , Inc. . -1936, “Preface”, in Raymond Firth.s W e, The Tikopia: A Sociological Study of Kinship in Prim itive Polynesia, George Allen & Unwin Ltd. .
Marcus, George E. , and Dick Cushman, 1982, “Ethnographies as Texts”, in Annual Review of Anthropology, vol. 11: 25 -69.
Marcus, George E. 1985. “A Timely Reading of Naven: Gregory Bateson as O racular Essayist. ” Representation, No. 12 (Au2 tumn) : 66 -82.
Mead, Margaret, 1972, B lackberry W inter: M y Earlier Years, New York: Simon and Schuster.
Radcliffe -Brown, 1937, “Review of Naven”, in American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 43, Issue 1.
Wolff, KurtH. 1944. “A CritiqueofBateson.sNaven. ”The Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute of Great B ritain and Ireland, Vol. 74, No. 1 /2: 59 -74.
[英] 马林诺斯基: 《西太平洋的航海者》, 梁永佳, 李绍明译, 北京: 华夏出版社, 2002 年。