论民族学的跨文化比较研究法  

作　　者：包智明[1] 

机构地区：[1]中央民族大学民族学系

出　　处：《世界民族》1997年第3期40-50,共11页Journal of World Peoples Studies

摘　　要：在民族学研究领域里，存在两种不同的跨文化比较研究：广义的和狭义的跨文化比较研究。本文重点探讨了默多克等人创立的（狭义的）跨文化比较研究法。本文不但论述了这种方法在资料运用和分析方法方面的特点，而且指出了它在方法论上存在的若干问题。本文认为，尽管默多克等人为了完善这种方法进行了诸多的努力，但仍然没有能够从根本上解决在方法论上遇到的难题，因而这种方法并没有能够发展为被民族学家普遍运用的主流方法。There are two different sorts of cross- cultrual comparative researches in the field of ethnological studies： those in broad sense and those in narrow sense. This article focuses attention on the methodology of cross - cultural comparison（in narrow sense） created by G. P. Murdock et al. , while expounding the methodology＇ s features in using materials amd in analysis. The article also points out that there are still several methodological problems in Murdock＇ s researches. The author holds that Murdock et al. have made a lot of efforts for inproving such a methodology, but they have not settled the difficult methodological methodology has not so far become the ethnologists. problem once and for all,and thetefore their mainstream method generally adopted by

关 键 词：跨文化比较研究 比较研究法 民族学家 资料运用 默多克 方法论 狭义 

分 类 号：G257[文化科学—图书馆学]