本文從可觀察性、可理解性、可追溯性、可關聯性、可啟發性、可把握性、可容廓性及可改變性對線索民族志線索追溯方法的特征與時代意義進行了歸納和分析。現代人類學的田野工作方法并未過時,在新的文化轉型背景下出現了一種具有自我創造性的轉化,這種轉化植根于線索民族志的線索追溯方法之上

Through the following eight aspects, such as observability,understandability,traceability, relevancy, instructiveness, controllability, inclusiveness,and convertibility, this article concludes and analyzes the characteristics and practical meanings of the clue tracing method of clue ethnography. Modern anthropological methodology of fieldwork is not outdated and it has a transformation of self-productivity under the background of the new cultural turn. This kind of transformation is rooted on the clue tracing methods of clue ethnography.