The societies studied in early social and cultural anthropology were by default considered what we would now call sustainable, in that they were assumed to be capable of reproducing themselves indefinitely, changing only incrementally and almost imperceptibly. Change was considered to be caused by exogenous factors such as colonialism. The contrast with the contemporary practices and theories of anthropology is striking: The anthropology of the Anthropocene accepts globalisation as a fact, seeing societies as interlinked and culture as unbounded, and threats to sustainability are mainly conceptualised in terms of ecological devastation and climate change. The notion of sustainable development, introduced in 1987 and later elaborated in the UN Sustainable Development Goals, shares the global vision of contemporary anthropology but presupposes economic growth and brackets cultural diversity. To this discourse and its associated practices, anthropology is making major contributions, profiting from the methodological advances made a century ago, but contextualising ethnography in the global Anthropocene, using the tools of the discipline to critique facile universalism, engaging in dialogue with local worlds and showing that there are many alternatives. The methodologies devised for research in ostensibly unchanging village societies are still relevant for research on global crises, but the new anthropology is by necessity interdisciplinary.
本期专题为“语言政策话语研究”，旨在通过对这一崭新话题的探索，助推中国语言规划学自主知识体系的构建。在后现代主义思潮的影响下，“话语”概念渗透到人文社会科学的诸多学科，由于其巨大的理论张力，引起了20世纪社会科学研究的“话语转向”。在这个大背景下，语言政策研究越来越重视话语研究。在这个新的范式中，话语被视作一种行为，能够建构社会关系、参与社会活动，甚至建构社会事实。
20世纪80年代以来，中国边疆研究成为我国学术界普遍关注、多学科参与的“显学”。“中国边疆学”学科体系、学术体系、话语体系建设则在呼吁、争鸣、交流中缓慢前行。中国边疆治理研究是中国边疆学的重要研究内容之一，长期受到学术界重视，无论是中国历朝历代边疆治理的研究，还是当代中国边疆治理的研究，专家学者们都发表过一批高质量的论著。（（1））当前，世界面临百年未有之大变局，当代中国边疆治理火热的实践呼唤专家学者持续拓展、深化边疆治理的历史与现状研究，把论文、著作书写在我国边疆的大地上。
本期专题为“中国式现代化与中国语言学的发展”。综观中国语言学发展史，可以发现大致经历了三大阶段：（1）19世纪末之前的传统语言学阶段，以“小学”研究为核、主要服务于解经释典；（2）19世纪末至21世纪初的西化阶段，“小学”式微、西方语言学体系引入中国；（3）21世纪初以来的主体自觉阶段，学界反思回归、开启中国学术三大体系建设。传统语言学阶段，一般也称语文学阶段。
人才培养与学术共识是海外民族志发展的一体两面,贯穿学术范式革新的实践过程.作为 21 世纪革新中国社会科学的路径之一,海外民族志通过拓展中国人类学的研究对象和视野,培育了从事海外社会经验研究的基本力量,可以为区域国别学提供扎根世界各地的人才、实地调查的规范与方法、整体论的理念和民族志范例.在新文科建设背景下,由海外民族志培育的新型人才将促使区域国别研究成为能够扎根"社会"的一门综合性社会科学.
