《天真的人类学家》行动派人类学家：天真而乐观

The opening of the book revealed the authors incredible energy and extreme optimism. He could embrace a monkey and bring it into a cinema, and he could obtain a story from every passerby. The bowl was licked by a dog, and the flesh of a fan palm was chewed by an old woman who helped. Interesting plots were interspersed in every corner, and you never knew what kind of cold joke the author would throw out, no matter how difficult the situation was in the previous moment. Perhaps it was this kind of making fun in trouble that allowed the author to go back and forth to West Africa twice.

Stereotypes misled me, and in the first few chapters, I was always worried that the author would be mistaken due to cultural barriers and then be dragged away and eaten. Fortunately, the chief here was not a terrifying character, but an amiable, humorous, and occasionally shy drunken master.

In addition to the challenge of the environment, another challenge in research is the unknown. Research is a process of questioning, researching, arguing, and defining. But in Doubiliu, its difficult to determine what "Doubiliu people believe in..." They are not a modern society, and there are no universal rules and unified understanding for conceptual culture. Therefore, research must be based on extensive practical investigations and build a framework from scratch, with randomness and unpredictability everywhere. Even at the end of the article, Nigel did not witness the circumcision. Fortunately, Nigel had his optimism, and even if the research plan, like a fictional novel, turned into a bubble, he could still joke about it, "I think this is very interesting. Can I get some money to go and see it?" and move on again. Pursuing truth and essence has always been the theme of philosophers and scholars of various disciplines. But what is the objective reality of exotic cultures does not exist. Scientific research can only approach truth as much as possible. Of course, good or bad, smooth or tortuous, are just a moment of life, and interesting stories happen equally in every corner of the world.

"Today, your sky can be clear..." "Very clear, what about yours?" "My sky is also very clear." When I read this, I feel that the air around me has become much clearer. As the article said, theoretically, you can travel from any corner of the earth to another corner, but we are often trapped by fear.