物质文化（material culture）研究如何挑战「文化—自然」的二分法？
How does material culture studies challenge the culture-nature dichotomy?
物质文化关注器物、技术与空间如何承载并塑造意义，主张「物」并非被动容器而是行动者。拉图尔的行动者网络理论表明，人与非人要素共同构成混合网络，从而模糊了天然与人为的界限。
Material culture studies attend to how objects, technologies, and spaces carry and shape meaning, treating things as active rather than passive containers. Latour's actor-network theory shows human and non-human elements form hybrid networks, blurring the nature-culture boundary.
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拉图尔《我们从未现代过》(1991)
Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern (1991)
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#物质文化 #行动者网络 #本体论
列维-斯特劳斯如何用结构主义解读「生食与熟食」的神话？
How does Levi-Strauss use structuralism to interpret myths of the raw and the cooked?
在《神话学》中，他将「生/熟」视为自然与文化的对立轴，烹饪作为文化对自然的转化成为普遍心智结构的符号。通过跨文化的神话变体比较，他主张人类思维以二元对立及其调解来组织意义。
In Mythologiques, he reads raw/cooked as the nature/culture axis, with cooking as culture's transformation of nature, a symbol of universal mental structure. Comparing mythic variants cross-culturally, he argues the human mind organizes meaning through binary oppositions and their mediation.
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列维-斯特劳斯《神话学》(Mythologiques, 1964)
Claude Levi-Strauss, Mythologiques (1964)
#结构主义 #列维斯特劳斯 #神话
人类学中的「仪式」（ritual）指什么？它通常承担哪些社会功能？
What is ritual in anthropology, and what social functions does it typically serve?
仪式是高度程式化、重复性的象征行为，如成人礼、祭祀与节气庆典。它强化群体认同、标记生命转折、维系宇宙观与社会秩序，并通过集体参与凝聚共同体。
Ritual is a highly formalized, repetitive symbolic act, such as initiations, sacrifices, and seasonal festivals. It reinforces group identity, marks life transitions, sustains cosmologies and social order, and binds community through collective participation.
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涂尔干《宗教生活的基本形式》(1912)
Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912)
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#仪式 #象征 #社会凝聚
什么是亲属制度（kinship）？摩尔根如何对其分类？
What is kinship, and how did Morgan classify it?
亲属制度是用血缘与婚姻界定社会成员关系与义务的规则体系。摩尔根在《古代社会》中按世系计算方式将社会分为「母系」与「父系」两大类型，并据亲属称谓推断社会演进阶段。
Kinship is the system of rules defining social relations and obligations through blood and marriage. In Ancient Society, Morgan classified societies by descent reckoning into matrilineal and patrilineal types and inferred evolutionary stages from kinship terminology.
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摩尔根《古代社会》(Ancient Society, 1877)
Lewis Henry Morgan, Ancient Society (1877)
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#亲属制度 #摩尔根 #世系
什么是文化相对主义（cultural relativism）？它为何重要又有局限？
What is cultural relativism, and why is it both important and limited?
文化相对主义主张应依据某一文化自身的标准理解其习俗，反对以本文化为尺度做优劣评判，有助于遏制民族中心主义。但其极端形式会陷入「凡事皆可」的相对主义，难以回应人权等普世价值冲突。
Cultural relativism holds that a culture's practices should be understood by its own standards rather than judged by another's, countering ethnocentrism. Taken to extremes it risks anything-goes relativism, struggling to address conflicts with universal values like human rights.
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赫斯科维茨《文化人类学》(1948) 文化相对主义论述
Melville Herskovits, Man and His Works (1948)
#文化相对主义 #民族中心主义 #人类学
莫斯在《礼物》中如何解释礼物交换为何能建立社会义务与团结？
How does Mauss, in The Gift, explain why gift exchange creates social obligation and solidarity?
莫斯考察波利尼西亚等地指出，礼物并非自由赠予，而是「馈赠—接受—回赠」的循环义务。通过迫使受礼者回报，交换维系了人、物与群体之间的持续纽带与相互依赖。
Surveying Polynesia and beyond, Mauss argues gifts are not free but part of a cycle of give, receive, and return. By compelling reciprocation, exchange sustains ongoing bonds of mutual dependence among persons, things, and groups.
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莫斯《礼物》(The Gift, 1925)
Marcel Mauss, The Gift (1925)
#礼物交换 #互惠 #莫斯
什么是文化适应（acculturation）？它在移民研究中通常表现为哪些模式？
What is acculturation, and what patterns does it typically take in migration studies?
文化适应指两个文化接触后，一方或双方在习俗、语言与价值观上的变迁。贝瑞（Berry）提出四种策略：同化、分离、整合与边缘化，整合（保留原文化并接纳主流文化）通常伴随更好的适应结果。
Acculturation is the change in customs, language, and values when cultures contact. Berry identified four strategies, assimilation, separation, integration, and marginalization, with integration typically yielding better adaptation.
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Berry,《Cross-Cultural Psychology》(1997) 文化适应模型
John Berry, Cross-Cultural Psychology (1997)
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“一顿正经饭”和零食的界限究竟由什么划定？玛丽·道格拉斯为何把一餐饭当作一套等待破译的社会密码？
What really draws the line between a “proper meal” and a snack, and why did Mary Douglas treat a meal as a social code awaiting decipherment?
道格拉斯在1972年的论文中用结构分析指出，餐食像语言一样自有句法：酒水与菜肴的分界、主菜与配菜的次序共同宣告眼前是正餐、点心还是款待——同样一块饼干，夹进面包便是午餐，抹上果酱就成了茶点。这些编码标记亲属关系、待客义务与内外之别，可见进食首先是在操演社会分类、维系群体边界，营养只是其意义之一。
Using structural analysis in her 1972 essay, Douglas argued that meals obey a grammar of their own: the division between drinks and dishes and the ranking of staple and trimmings jointly announce whether an occasion is a dinner, a nibble, or hospitality — the same biscuit becomes lunch when sandwiched in bread, and tea when spread with jam. Such codes mark kinship, obligations to guests, and the border between insiders and outsiders; eating thus chiefly performs social classification and keeps group boundaries alive, with nourishment only one layer of its meaning.
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玛丽·道格拉斯：《解读一顿饭》，载《代达罗斯》（Daedalus）第101卷第1期（1972年冬季号），第61–81页。
Mary Douglas, “Deciphering a Meal”, Daedalus 101(1), Winter 1972, pp. 61–81.
#饮食分类 #餐桌句法 #结构主义