History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

  • -- W. H. Auden 奥登

严格地说,历史是对问题的研究;答案研究属于人类学和社会学。

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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.

我做过很多实践人类学的研究,和人们一起住在村子里,并意识到摆脱贫困是多么困难。在贫困的时候,人们用他们的技能来避免饥饿。他们不能用它来进步。

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

随着我们的科学变得越来越抽象,这门学科对经济学家失去了一度的吸引力,但随着科学社会学提出的问题变得更加突出,我的兴趣甚至变得更加浓厚。

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

文化人类学作为一门严格意义上的历史科学,正越来越迅速地实现其自身的价值。

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

即使在最具洞察力的时候,社会学也处理抽象问题。