Recently one of the central problem in cultural anthropology, there is the work constructing a new flame corresponding to changing fields. George Marcus has presented the possibility to adopt Political economy and Cultural anthropology of interpretation and to construct "multi-sited ethnography". This paper studies from this point of the presentation by George Marcus, and the base of economic anthropology. Richard Wilk pointed that the flame by Karl Marx showed the relation of "base-super structure". This view is help for describing the economic situation of fields. Because of the conceptual tool from material to ideal. Maurice Bloch said that "Cultural Materialism" by Marvin Harris is not Marxism and that the critique by Marshall Sahlins is not fit for Marx but Harris. Maurice Godelier developed this view by Marx into the relation "from awareness to meaning". This area means that our world is virtual. James Carrier used this term "Virtualism" in his editorial book. But our use is different from Carrier. Everything peoples can face is changing into something. No matter what is, materials or ideas, it is important that we pay attention to the Integration of things. Sometimes systematically, and the other times wholly. An anthropologist in his field understands by his feeling. This feeling is constructed by his life and the situation of his field. So if our world is global system, he can find something global in his field. That is the process of real world, and also the system of explaining the world. On the virtualistic stance of view, can we see the global system? The study to answer this question theoretically, I think, means the outline between "Political Economy" and "Ethnography".

特集文化人類学の現代的課題
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