儿童史新书 | “任性”的孩子们：台湾乡村的历史田野笔记与道德学习
Jing Xu, 'Unruly' Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village, Cambridge University Press, November 2024.
我们是如何变成有道德的人？相比于教养，儿童的主动学习是怎样的？从更宽泛的意义上，儿童能够教会我们有关知识生产的哪些内容？在上世纪中叶的台湾村庄，人类学家武雅士与卢蕙馨夫妇所从事的具有开拓性的田野调查回答了上述问题，标志着欧美学界第一个聚焦汉人儿童生活世界的人类学研究。本书作者许晶巧妙地对武雅士采集的大量田野资料展开再阐释，采用了混合人文主义阐释、自然语言处理与机器学习技术的独特取径。从社会认知的视角出发，本书阐明了儿童道德成长的复杂性，揭露有关不服从、协调与同辈互动的例子。在重释田野笔记的过程中，作者基于社会认知将两大主题串联起来——道德习得与民族志建构，并邀请我们严肃地看待儿童。本书对人类学与教育学领域的研究生与本科生而言是理想的读物。
How do we become moral persons? What about children's active learning in contrast to parenting? What can children teach us about knowledge-making more broadly? Answer these questions by delving into the groundbreaking ethnographic fieldwork conducted by anthropologists Arthur and Margery Wolf in a martial law era Taiwanese village (1958-60), marking the first-ever study of ethnic Han children. Jing Xu skillfully reinterprets the Wolfs' extensive fieldnotes, employing a unique blend of humanistic interpretation, natural language processing, and machine-learning techniques. Through a lens of social cognition, this book unravels the complexities of children's moral growth, exposing instances of disobedience, negotiation, and peer dynamics. Writing through and about fieldnotes, the author connects the two themes, learning morality and making ethnography, in light of social cognition, and invites all of us to take children seriously. This book is ideal for graduate and undergraduate students of anthropology and educational studies.
Introduction: learning morality in a Taiwan village
1. Fieldwork beyond fieldwork: reconstructing an ethnography of children through historical fieldnotes
2. Crime and punishment: parenting and the disobedient child
3. Playful creatures: learning morality in peer play
4. Gendered morality: naughty boys and fierce girls
5. Care and rivalry: an untold tale of a sibling dyad
Epilogue: taking children seriously
Afterword.
作者任教于华盛顿大学，从事跨学科的人类学研究。
Jing Xu is an anthropologist at the University of Washington and the author of The Good Child: Moral Development in a Chinese Preschool (Stanford University Press, 2017). She pursues interdisciplinary research, bringing together humanistic and scientific perspectives to study how humans become moral persons.
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