내러티브에 기초한 인간학의 방향

A Study on the Direction of Narrative-Based Anthropology

The purpose of this study is to explore the meaning of narrative-based research, which is being suggested as an important method of human understanding, as well as the future of anthropology based on human understanding. There have been continuous efforts in trying to comprehensively understand the humans, but many of individual disciplines regarding the studies about humans were only able to show some specific parts instead of showing the human as a whole, due to it's characteristics. However, the recent discovery of the remarkable, meteoric rise of narrative inquiry is becoming the focus of comprehensive understanding of human experience and life. Narrative is a type of scheme that gives meaning to everyday experience and individual actions of humans. In other words, narrative is a form of discourse that gives order of an event or a series of event, acting as mediation for humans to understand and organize the world. Thus, narrative can act to form one's individual world or to even share the meanings with others by transforming human experience into an understandable form. Due to the fact that narrative is an effort of comprehensively understand and express humans synthetically, various individual studies and specialized fields can comprehensively understand humans by using narrative as a median to build mutual communication. In this respect, the future of anthropology is expected to be the integration or convergence of macro or micro level of various individual studies for human understanding.