Interview of Professor Arthur P. Wolf (1932-2015) on Stanford’s Human Biology Program

Carlos Seligo, Hill Gates, and Chen Shu-juo. “Interview of Professor Arthur P. Wolf (1932-2015) on Stanford’s Human Biology Program.” Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore 197 (2017.9): 11-38.

卡洛斯．石林哥、葛希芝、陳叔倬。〈武雅士教授2013年訪談錄〉。《民俗曲藝》197 (2017.9): 11-38。

In 2013, Arthur Wolf was interviewed about Stanford University’s Human Biology Program in which he had taught for more than thirty years. The program typically enrolled the largest number of undergraduate majors at Stanford, was taught by some of the university’s most eminent scholars, and included Wolf’s favorite teaching course, its introductory quarter. As he says below, Wolf was never entirely satisfied that the program succeeded in the goals he set for it. As his research progressed, however, it provided an excellent forum for re-assessing the integration he sought for his own work. His thoughts on “HumBio” provide the perfect frame for understanding what Arthur Wolf did with the Taiwan and China materials on which his writings are based.

2013年，在史丹佛大學人類生物學程授課30年之後，武雅士教授接受該學程專訪。人類生物學程是史丹佛大學大學部最熱門、最多學生主修的學程，由多位傑出教授共同授課，其中最受學生歡迎、也是武雅士最投入授課的是「人類生物基礎課程」。武雅士曾經表示，即使人類生物學程已經非常受歡迎，但他從未志得意滿。當自己的研究有新的發現，他總是進一步轉化成教學內容，隨時更新讓課程更臻完美。因此，認識「人類生物」學程，亦是認識武雅士的臺灣與中國研究最好的途徑。