講題
From Ethnology to Material Culture
從物質文化到民族學

主講人
Michael Rowlands
Emeritus Professor, Department of Anthropology, University College London

時間與地點
2018年1月15日上午10點至12點
本所新館3樓2319會議室

摘要
My lecture will start with the distinction between Ethnology and Social Anthropology. Ethnology had originated in the the study of ''peoples without history''. Peoples whose history was not written but still could be recovered through the collection of artefacts and knowledge of how they were used. Social Anthropology not only rejected the ''conjectural history'' composed through study of artefacts. It also stressed language and speech as the primary source of understanding cultural differences. The conflict has had unfortunate consequences and the recent revival of material culture studies provides a possibility of reconciling the difference.