Under what conditions does European anthropology emerge today as an intellectual project? European anthropology takes shape only provisionally, as a fractured, heterogeneous and uneven field, for the duration of time-limited research projects and meetings with Europe-wide participation. In the currently dominant socio-economic conditions of academic life, European anthropology as an intellectual project has little chance to develop, except as an accident. And yet, with more institutional stability for researchers and their conversations, European anthropology could be turned into a more inspiring intellectual endeavour that challenges the classic Anglo-Saxon way of understanding anthropology as a conceptual translation between ‘our’ modern and ‘Other’ worlds; it could also help us to reimagine the world anthropologies framework through the postsocialist and postcolonial lens as something other than a ‘family of nations’.

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欧洲人类学是偶然的？

今天，欧洲人类学在什么条件下作为一个智力项目出现？欧洲人类学只是在有时间限制的研究项目和全欧洲参与的会议期间临时形成的，作为一个破碎的、异质的和不平衡的领域。在当前学术生活占主导地位的社会经济条件下，欧洲人类学作为一个智力项目几乎没有发展的机会，除非是一个意外。然而，随着研究人员及其对话的制度更加稳定，欧洲人类学可以转变为一项更具启发性的智力努力，挑战经典的盎格鲁-撒克逊人将人类学理解为“我们的”现代世界和“其他”世界之间的概念转换的方式；