Anthropologists have long been aware that theoretical perspectives guide ethnographic research and scholarly production. More recently the reflexive turn in ethnography laid bare the importance of the ethnographer’s social position and unequal power relations. This paper focuses on these and other semiconscious forces, as well as contingent events, that prime ethnographers to focus on some things but not others. Prior graduate training and an era’s intellectual zeitgeist often frame research goals. The investigator’s mental map, age, maturity, psychological state, experience, and innumerable experiences outside university training similarly influence research. Chance events in the field add further complications. Focusing on my own half-century trajectory in the Andes, this paper examines how these forces shaped my research and ultimately the production of anthropological knowledge, reinforcing the need to bring these sometimes-distorting constraints into conscious reflection, as well as the utility of sequential research in the same community.

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启动民族志: 构建超过半个世纪的安第斯研究的理论和很大程度上无意识的指南

人类学家早就意识到理论观点指导人种学研究和学术生产。最近，民族志的反思性转向暴露了民族志学者的社会地位和不平等权力关系的重要性。本文重点关注这些和其他半意识力量，以及偶然事件，这些因素促使民族志学者关注某些事情而不是其他事情。先前的研究生培训和一个时代的知识分子时代精神通常构成了研究目标。调查员的心理地图、年龄、成熟度、心理状态、经历和无数大学培训之外的经历同样影响研究。现场的偶然事件增加了进一步的复杂性。专注于我在安第斯山脉半个世纪的轨迹，