从20世纪初人类学与民族学引入中国至今,对其中的核心概念之一“ethnography”因为误解而导致译名混乱。在辩证审视人种学的译名、质疑规范统一译为民族志的基础上,主张应根据文本的内容和生产的时代背景采用不同的译名,在通常情况下译为“群志”较为妥当。 Since the early 20th century, anthropology and ethnology were introduced into China, one of the core concepts of “ethnography” has been confused by misunderstanding. On the basis of dialectically examining the translation of ethnography and querying the standardization of uniform translation into ethnography, the proposition should be interpreted according to the content of the text and the background of production in different translations, and it is generally appropriate to translate it into “group records” .