精彩对白：While doing field work, anthropologists have been known to lose themselves in the very society that they're studying, a phenomenon known as "going native."

文化面面观：going native

The term "going native" is employed to refer to the trepidation felt by the European colonizers in Africa that they may become desecrated by being assimilated into the culture and customs of the indigenous peoples. In today's liberal and anti-racist society, "going native" is understandably considered a derogatory and offensive term. The image of Africa as a savage, primitive territory is after all a predominantly Western construction and is due in large part to the tendencies of Europeans to judge other cultures unreasonably according to their own distinctly Western standards of what constitutes civilisation. This prejudiced position not only completely ignores the accepted notion of cultural and historical specificity, but also the fact that foreign cultures often live according to their own traditional, sometimes tribal, belief systems.

The misconstrual of native customs as barbaric and debased finds its origins in the coloniser/colonised binarism, a duality which represented the colonial subjects as primitive, carnal brutes whose main objective was to attack and corrupt the virtuous white overseer. This naive depiction of black people as bestial savages is what ultimately caused the colonial administrators in many countries to be terrorized by fears of "going native".

The notion of "going native" also often referred to an apparent departure from European culture, which involved partaking in native rituals and the practise of local customs regarding food, dress and entertainment.

In terms of anthropology, "going native" refers to the process of learning, adjusting, expanding, and accepting that goes on as anthropologists deepen their involvement with their hosts and their hosts' cultures through long-term fieldwork and participation.

This process of absorbing another culture is psychologically challenging. At times the anthropologist will resist the process of assimilation, exhibiting signs of neurosis and obsessive behavior, while at other times they will plunge headlong into the lives and behaviors of their hosts, forgetting for a time that they ever lived anywhere else. In spite of all the specialist, and even necessary methodology anthropologists use in the field, much of the learning process is unconscious.

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请将下列句子翻译成英文

1. 我需要尽快地拿到这一书面协议。

2. 这会不会耽误农活？

3. 她从哪里弄来的那件衣服？看起来像个妓女。

4. 那家伙古怪得很，大家都不理他。

Nanny Diaries 《保姆日记》精讲之三 参考答案

1. She rambled on about her uninteresting affairs.

2. I explained that I screwed up.

3. The ski jump was out of his league.

4. He was trying to redeem himself for his earlier failure.

精彩对白：While doing field work, anthropologists have been known to lose themselves in the very society that they're studying, a phenomenon known as "going native."

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