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人类学与现代性瓦茨拉夫·胡宾格尔现代性并不仅仅指时间上的“现在”。它指的是一种充满了意识形态的建构，一种态度，而不是一种“真正存在”的东西。它来自西方，是一个与进步紧紧相联系的观念。人类学过去一度是西方文明中的一个现代学科；由于它那种自我反思以及就当代世界提出并且回答许多迫切问题的能力，在极权主义之后的东欧国家成为现代性的一个符号。但是，人类学能否开拓更广泛的研究领域，超越对种种奇特的风俗习惯的研究，从而重新占据它过去有过的地位，将取决于人类学者们的努力。
Anthropology and Modernity The modernity of Wenceslas Hiberg does not only refer to the “present” in time. It refers to a construction that is full of ideology, an attitude, not a “real” thing. It comes from the West and is a concept closely linked to progress. Anthropology was, in the past, a modern discipline in Western civilization; eastern Europe after totalitarianism became a symbol of modernity because of its self-reflection and its capacity to address the many pressing problems of the contemporary world. However, anthropology’s ability to open up broader areas of research, to go beyond the study of exotic peculiar customs, and to regain its past status will depend on the efforts of anthropologists.