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The Metaphor Of Huamo And The Reality Of Decorum And Customs

Posted on:2010-10-06Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y F BaiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2189360275497898Subject:Folklore
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This textual research is huamo decorum and customs, mainly takes xia village in ShanXi as the case and conducts the fixed-point research .It makes use of theories and methods of folkloristics and anthropology,which employs the field investigate information, assists with local cultural literature, views huamo decorum and customs in the folklife as folklore item with inheritance and variability to carry on the whole research. In order to reveale suitable cultural choice that local people in the daily life make ,putting emphasis on understanding of huamo decorum and customs for people as cultural holders. It is starting point and the foothold for the article to disscuss the metaphor of huamo and the reality of decorum and customs.The research for huamo decorum and customs seeks each kind of possible significance explanation not pursues theoretical explanations of rule.Through the utilization of ethnography methodology and the folklore, annotating cultural choice of the crowd of xia village , discussing the inntrinsic order and the operation principle of village community,revelating"the cultural grammar"of the village.In this article, its social significance provides the scientific reference for the socialism new countryside's construction;Its practical significance demonstrates one cultural multiplicity through the part of the real under the globalized background.In t his article ,the first sets the preface, the tail sets the conclusion, the body is divided into five chapters:The preface is about aims and significances of the paper,accomplishments made by other people,methods the paper uses and information source.Chapter one gives a overview about huamo decorum and customs of xia village in ShanXi.It mainly introduces natural and social environment which huamo decorum and customs exists in,the production and the development, huamo types of ShanXi and xia village,compared with huamo decorum and customs inside of shanxi: xia village and HongDao town of DingXiang County; In addition, inside and outside comparision: xia village in ShanXi and and ShenQiu in HeNan .Chapter two uses performance theory as well as related academic idea of which oral narrative research stresses that"huamo text"returns to specific context,"steaming huamo"this behavior regards as one kind"the scene event"and returns to the daily context.Through demonstrating between concrete"performer"and huamo as well as performer's multiple interactive relations, it thoroughly explores what hides the cultural scheme behind this context. On this basis,excavates inheritance mechanism and the knowledge extension of huamo decorum and customs.Chapter three Unifies the field material, attempts using the symbolic anthropology, the folklore semeilogy and related theories to analyze populace"the work"of xia village in ShanXi, as well as insight clearly that populace is how to regard, feel and think their world by huamo symbol mark .Chapter four examines carefully the culture functions of huamo decorum and customs from the multi-perspective.It will regard huamo as one kind of process research, Diachronic and Synchronic Study are paid equal attention. Huamo is the medium which God and people, ancestors and people communicate with,and strengthens the people's belief world; It is regarded as a mechanism of social memory; It is also the human communication"lubricant"; In addition, in the funeral ceremony, it highlights the role and status of the daughter.Chapter five discusses the evolution and prospects the development trend of huamo decorum and customs in modern society. The evolution not only displays space and time vicissitude: huamo ceremony time shortens ; huamo ceremony scale reduceds.In addition, but also displays changes of the mentality of huamo decorum and customs holders.From the past to the present,the inheritance huamo decorum and customs of xia village in ShanXi are unconscious, along with the development of modern society, the traditional folklore culture continues to survive, it is necessary to change the inheritance way , from the unconscious inheritance to conscious creation, such as the individual and village cultural capital of huamo decorum and customs .The case study not only seeks the home of theory but also points to the reality. Only such tentative plan is to be tested.Conclusion: Huamo decorum and customsn shoulders the responsibility of indicating and maintaining the order of village daily life in the course of inheritance and variability. Huamo solidified traditional cultural elements, like a mirror, lightes up a group spirit outlook of international relations, which is huamo metaphor. However, under the modernized background,huamo decorum and customs' practice feeling is fuzzy, which is huamo decorum and customs's reality. We not only pay attention to huamo as well as the huamo decorum and customs, more importantly, we concerne about how the populace express their local knowledge, the wisdom and the strategy by the huamo decorum and customs.On this basis,we realize the academic oriented transformation of folklore research-from the folklore to the folk lore,and complete reproduction of knowledge.We are interested in the past, because we are interested in the present.We are interested in huamo decorum and customs, because we are interested in special groups' people.
Keywords/Search Tags:Xia Village in ShanXi, Huamo Decorum and Customs, Metaphor, Reality of Decorum and Customs
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