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标题：O Trabalho visto pela Antropologia Social
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作者：José Sérgio Leite Lopes
期刊名称：Revista Ciências do Trabalho
电子版ISSN：2319-0574
出版年度：2013
卷号：1
期号：1
页码：65-84
出版社：Escola DIEESE de Ciências do Trabalho
摘要：Anthropologists have traditionally studied labor in their monographs about indigenous groups, ethnic minorities, the peasantry, fishers and artisans. In these studies of labor, as in the economic sphere in general, it appears as enmeshed in the totality of the social life of these “traditional”, “pre-capitalist” groups. Generally such anthropological studies focus on the centrality of gift giving and reciprocity, which negate or obscure economic interests for the benefit of the logic of honor or of symbolic capital. They regard the gift as a total social fact where the market principal is subordinated to that of reciprocity and redistribution. Labor in these studies is not the central theme of interest, but appears in a form subordinated to other aspects with which it is interrelated. Anthropologists offered an alternative research program through ethnographic studies, direct observation, long field trips, profound respect for the populations studied and empathy for their understandings and conceptions of the world. The ethnographic methods utilized with success in social anthropology were adopted in other disciplines and today are common in all the social sciences. I will discuss the state of the anthropology of labor from my own research experience and those of my closest colleagues with whom I share interests as well as the interdisciplinary literature that is appropriate for such studies.