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(46)At the end of the nineteenth century, a rising interest in Native American customs and an increasing desire to understand Na
(46)At the end of the nineteenth century, a rising interest in Native American customs and an increasing desire to understand Na
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At the end of the nineteenth century, a rising interest in Native American customs and an increasing desire to understand Native American culture prompted ethnologists to begin recording the life stories of Native American.
Ethnologists had a distinct reason for wanting to hear the stories: they were after linguistic or anthropological data that would supplement their own field observations, and they believed that the personal stories, even of a single individual, could increase their understanding of the cultures that they had been observing from without. (47)
In addition, many ethnologists at the turn of the century believed that Native American manners and customs were rapidly disappearing, and that it was important to preserve for posterity as much information as could be adequately recorded bef0re the cultures disappeared forever.
There were, however, arguments against this method as a way of acquiring accurate and complete information. (48)
Franz Boas, for example, described autobiographies as being "of limited value and useful chiefly for the study of the perversion of truth by memory," while Paul Radin contended that investigators rarely spent enough time with the tribes they were observing, and inevitably derived results too tinged by the investigator’s own emotional tone to be reliable.
Even more importantly, as these life stories moved from the traditional oral mode to recorded written form, much was inevitably lost. Editors often decided what elements were significant to the field research on a given tribe. Native Americans recognized. that the essence of their lives could not be communicated in English and that events that they thought significant were often deemed unimportant by their interviewers. (49)
Indeed, the very act of telling their stories could force Native American narrators to distort their cultures, as taboos had to be broken to speak the names of dead relatives crucial to their family stories.
(50)
Despite all of this, autobiography remains a useful tool for ethnological research: such personal reminiscences and impressions, incomplete as they may be, are likely to throw more light on the working of the mind and emotions than any amount of speculation from an ethnologist or ethnological theorist from another culture.
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尽管如此,自传仍然是人种学家进行研究的有用的工具:这类个人回忆和影响尽管不完全,与源自某个人种学家或另外一种文化的理论家的猜想相比,对美国印第安人的思想和情感方式的研究更又启发。
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此句的关键在于分析句子的结构,其难点是句中包含了一个较复杂的比较级句式:more light on the working of the mind and emotions than any amount of speculation from…or…from…。"despite of"意思是:不管…;尽管如此。
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