音乐学戴维·科普兰一个世纪以来，音乐一直是人类学研究的一个重要领域，特别是它与包括仪式在内的其它表演活动的关系。本文研究了这一显然属于全球性的现象出现的原因和它在实地工作中的意义。作者回顾了音乐人类学在跨学科发展中的几个转折点，讨论了平衡人类学与音乐学之间关系在知识和机构方面所面临的挑战。它还重点分析了音乐对看起来是社会行动中一个独立领域的介入。它考察了音乐从表演的人类学的地位向表演人类学转变的情况。它突破更全面的表达和交流方式人类学计划这一界限，深入分析了彻底的音乐人类学的潜在价值 Musicology David Copeland For more than a century, music has been an important area of ​​anthropological research, especially its relation to other performance activities, including rituals. This article examines the causes of this apparently global phenomenon and its implications for work in the field. The author reviews several turning points in the interdisciplinary development of music anthropology and discusses the intellectual and institutional challenges of balancing the relationship between anthropology and musicology. It also focuses on the involvement of music in what appears to be an independent area of ​​social action. It examines how music shifts from performing anthropology to acting anthropology. It breaks the boundaries of a more comprehensive approach to expression and exchange of ideas in anthropology and provides an in-depth analysis of the potential value of thorough musical anthropology