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1、CurrentAnthropologyVolume51,Supplement2,October2010S321TactfulCriticisminHongKongTheColonialPastandEngagingwiththePresentbyAlanSmartCriticizingflawedsocialarrangementswouldseemtobeanaturalright.Butwhenthesocialcriticisnotacitizen,engagementraisesdifferentethicalandmethodologicaldilemmas.Informerlyco

2、l-onizedcontexts,particularlywhereanthropologicalknowledgeinfluencedthepracticesofrule,cantheoutsideanthropologistcriticize?Ifso,how?Regardlessofwhetherornotmoralphilosophysupportsarightorobligationtocriticizepracticesoutsideofthesocietyinwhichtheobserverisamember,therearegoodreasonstoundertakesuchs

3、ocialcriticisminanevenmorecarefulmannerthanwhendoingitathome.Thisarticlearguesthatgiventhehistoryofanthropologicalinvolvementinthecritiqueandtransformationofexistingsocialandculturalpracticesincolonies,socialcriticismmightbebestdonewithasubstantialdegreeoftactandconsiderationofthecomplexconsequence

4、s.Thenatureoftactanditsrelevancetosocialcriticismareexplored.IthendrawonmyworkonsquattersettlementsandpublichousinginHongKongtoexaminewaysinwhichwritingmayservetoprovokecriticalreconsiderationofphenomenathathavebeentakenforgranted.Criticizingwhatweconsidertobeflawedsocialarrangementstiqueandtransfor

5、mationofsocialandculturalpracticesinwouldseemtobeanaturalright,perhapsevenaduty.In-colonialterritories,socialcriticismmightbebestdonewithcreasingtheprofileofsocialcriticismgroundedinthelesstact.Explicitcriticismisonlyonewayinwhichtoengage.ethnocentricperspectivesofanthropologyappearsnecessaryWecanal

6、sowriteinwaysthatprovokecriticalreconsiderationforincreasingthevisibilityandinfluenceofanthropologyandofphenomenathathavebeentakenforgranted.Inmyownaresponsibilityforthedisciplineinanerawhenthecom-case,Ihavefeltreluctanttoexplicitlyexpoundonwhatshouldmentaryandadviceofothersocialsciencesisresultingi

7、nbedone.Instead,mysocialcriticismhasbeenpursuedpri-outcomesthatmanyanthropologistsabhor(Skidmore2006).marilythroughtacitorimplicitmeaningsinmytextsandOneresulthasbeenrapidgrowthinengagedanthropologyhowthest