Escaping the Trap of Indigenous Anthropology:The position and practice of sub-indigenous anthropology

Specially referring to existing Chinese literatures, this article attempts to critically review the epistemology of indigenous anthropology. The authors point out that there are some possible traps in the notion of indigenous anthropology and the danger is to essentialize the subject-position of fieldworkers and to override the reflexivity of fieldwork research.Based on the authors' fieldwork experiences, they show that although indigenous subject-positions brought them advantages in conducting research in their hometown, at the same time it also caused them various unsolvable difficulties which similarly shared with Western anthropologists.Authors emphasize that no matter what subject positions anthropologists taken , they ought to take numerous sensitive and careful steps in order to maintain rapport with their research subjects and come across their different gaps from them .Authors develop the notion of “sub-indigenous anthropology” to outline such a subtle but critical situation in the actual practice and argue for the necessity of being reflexive in the practice of fieldwork research even in the case of one' s indigenous society .

张少强;古学斌;

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