回顾了蒋斌近四十年来人类学学习和研究经历。他对人类学的理论研究和田野调查同样重视,认为人类学的理论关怀更广,具有比较研究的视野,而民族志调查则从不同文化所赋予的意义去理解多元的社会形态。他的硕士论文用曼彻斯特学派的冲突理论分析排湾族的贵族制度,并对当时的人类学田野方法做了反思;博士论文用列维-斯特劳斯“家屋社会”理论去解释排湾族的阶级社会。从台湾原住民的排湾族到东南亚沙捞越地区,他的足迹遍及岛屿东南亚社会,在他看来,研究东南亚能促进人们更加了解东西方文明在岛屿上发生的社会融合与文化交流的历史过程。 Reviewed Jiang Bin’s anthropological study and research experience for nearly four decades. He paid much attention to the theoretical research and fieldwork of anthropology. He believed that anthropology has a broader theoretical concern and a comparative field of vision. Ethnographic surveys understand diverse social forms from the meanings given by different cultures. His Master’s thesis analyzes the Paiwan aristocrat system based on the conflict theory of the Manchester School and makes a rethinking of the methodology of anthropological field at that time. His doctoral dissertation uses the Levi-Strauss Class society of the Bay Area. From Taiwan’s Aboriginal Paiwan tribes to Southeast Asia’s Sarawak region, his footprints all over the island Southeast Asian society, in his view, the study of Southeast Asia can promote people to learn more about the history of Eastern and Western civilizations on the island of social integration and cultural exchanges process.