Joel S. Kahn (1946–2017), was one of the founding editors of Critique of Anthropology. Throughout his career Joel continually adhered to an anthropology founded on the praxis of critique. Through his fieldwork in South East Asia and his own incursions into Western modernity and modernist thought, Joel was committed to a form of anthropology that challenged strict disciplinary conventions. The papers in this special issue written by his colleagues and students engage with some of the important themes he developed in his work rendering tribute to his ongoing legacy for generations of anthropologists.

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引言作为批判的人类学：乔尔·卡恩的遗产

Joel S. Kahn (1946–2017)，是《人类学批判》的创始编辑之一。在他的整个职业生涯中，乔尔一直坚持以批判实践为基础的人类学。通过他在东南亚的田野调查以及他自己对西方现代性和现代主义思想的入侵，乔尔致力于一种挑战严格学科惯例的人类学形式。本期特刊中由他的同事和学生撰写的论文涉及他在工作中发展的一些重要主题，向他为几代人类学家留下的遗产致敬。