| 英文摘要 |
This article addresses the topic of the Chinese ’native researcher’ with illustrations taken from anthropology, psychology, and sociology. While movements for indigenous social sciences have the potential to aid the development of anthropology, the ’native researcher’ is an idea that is also highly compatible with a kind of cultural nationalism that has both excluding traits and negative methodological implications. The culturalist assumptions underpinning the methodological stance implied by sinicized anthropology are bound to obscure more than promote a fruitful understanding of social reality, but it would be naive to dismiss this native/non-native dichotomy as wholly fictitious or regard it as nothing but a political slogan. However, it is argued here that an understanding of the ’native researcher’ in terms of organisational belonging, rather than in primordial terms of blood and culture, would make for a more satisfactory understanding of the researcher’s relation to the people he or she studies, to his or her research, and to other, ’non-native’ researchers. |