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1938年,人类学家马林诺夫斯基在为费孝通《江村经济》一书所作的序言中曾预言:未来的人类学发展会以中国研究为起点,转向复杂社会、本土社会的研究。本文中,弗里德曼对此予以热情的回应,但他认为以功能主义研究方法进行的“社区”研究不适用于复杂社会。他希望人类学可以与史学、社会学相结合,从而对复杂社会进行长时段、多角度的研究。他提醒西方的人类学家应该注意到中国社会及其变迁的研究,强调田野调查对于人类学家的重要性,并且对即将踏上人类学道路的青年学生提出了热切希望:希望他们秉持人类学田野调查的传统,同时要向其它学科学习借鉴,以推动人类学研究向更好的方向发展。
In 1938, Anthropologist Malinowski predicted in his preface to Fei Xiaotong’s “Village Economy” that the development of anthropology in the future would start with the study of China and turn to the study of complex society and local society . In this article, Friedman responds enthusiastically, but he believes that the “community” study of functionalist approaches does not apply to complex societies. He hoped that anthropology could be combined with historiography and sociology so as to conduct a long-term and multi-angle study of complex society. He reminded Western anthropologists that they should take note of the study of Chinese society and its changes, emphasizing the importance of fieldwork to anthropologists and earnestly hoped that young people who are about to embark on the path of anthropology would like them to uphold anthropology The field investigation tradition, at the same time to learn from other disciplines to promote anthropological research to a better direction.