2011年12月

【專題研究】思索「地方知識」
【Special Issue】Notes on “Local Knowledge”

蔡晏霖
Yen-Ling Tsai

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國立交通大學人文社會學系助理教授
「地方知識」（local knowledge）是文化人類學界裡最廣為使用，也是文化人類學者賴以標誌學科主體認同的學術語彙之一。 台灣東南亞學界由遠距遙研轉而強調「親炙」的方法論轉向是一個值得喝采的現象，同時也開展出一些值得推敲的課題。身為人類學者，筆者選擇從「地方知識」的人類學討論談起，進一步推及「地方知識」的其他相關思想系譜，最後再提出幾點關於台灣—東南亞知識實踐的個人觀察與思考。

關鍵詞：地方知識、田野工作、人類學、認識論、女性主義理論
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Science, National Chiao Tung University
The concept of “local knowledge” has been widely used within Cultural Anthropology and is considered one of the hallmarks of the discipline. In recent years, many Taiwanese scholars of Southeast Asian Studies have also embraced in earnest the notion of “local knowledge,” conducting fieldwork in various locations across Southeast Asia. I suggest that this development—the turn to “local knowledge”by Southeast Asianists in Taiwan—merits critical reflection. An anthropologist by training, I begin by tracing prominent intellectual genealogies of “local knowledge,” first within anthropology, then in postcolonial theory and feminist science studies. I end my discussion by offering some precautions, suggesting that the pursuit of “local knowledge” be supplemented by critical examination of both what constitutes “the local” and the existing framing and hierarchy of different “knowledges.”

Key words: local knowledge, fieldwork, anthropology, methodology, feminist theory

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