To theorize is to make an argument, to make sense of the world, to name and create. It is to stake a claim in and about the world. This can be an ethical act. But it has not always been one. Thinking of theory as ethics, rather than solely as intellectual practice, requires a rethinking of the purpose and not just the content of theory. This is not a prescription for theory but an acknowledgment of a shift underway across the disciplines. In anthropology, one key move is our recognition of ethnography as theory as well as method. As we reassess theory as a form of ethnographic knowledge, how and when do ethics enter the conversation? What are our responsibilities to speak not only truth to power, but also ethics to theory? [ethnography, theory, ethics, anthropology, fieldwork, refusal, relations, storytelling]

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理论作为伦理

理论化就是提出论点，理解世界，命名和创造。它是在世界上和世界上提出主张。这可能是一种道德行为。但它并不总是一个。将理论视为伦理而不是仅仅作为智力实践，需要重新思考目的而不仅仅是理论的内容。这不是对理论的处方，而是对跨学科正在发生的转变的承认。在人类学中，一个关键的举措是我们承认民族志既是理论也是方法。当我们将理论重新评估为民族志知识的一种形式时，伦理是如何以及何时进入对话的？我们有什么责任不仅要对权力讲真话，还要对理论讲道德？[民族志,理论,伦理,人类学,田野,拒绝,关系,讲故事]