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From The Perspective Of Social Interaction Miao Years

Posted on:2011-04-25Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q D ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2199330338475297Subject:Ethnology
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According to the research of social communication of rural society in China, G. William Skinner's "market system" theory, and Prasenjit Duara's "matrimonial circles" theory hold that the "market" and the "culture system" are very important in social communication respectively, which effect on our understanding of social communication deeply. For Fanpai village in Guizhou province, as a Miao people community different from the "great tradition", how the "market" and "culture system" play its role in the process of its social communication? What is the main factor in the social communication of Hmong community? By the research of social communication for the Miao people, it will explore the difference between the "great traditions" and "little traditions" in social communication, but it also make the social structure and social relations of Hmong people community clear. Therefore, this article attempts to Miao's festival as a starting point, using anthropological field research combined with the literature, selected the bullfight and Lusheng dance during the Miao New Year at Fanpai village in Guizhou province as the main analysis object, which embodied Hmong dialysis social interaction situation, and finally reached two preliminary conclusions as follows:(A) The social communication of Miao people is based on blood and marriage relation, in the same distance, the identity of cultural of those people who have the same blood relationship is a priority in social communication. "Fang" is a concept in defining the Miao people and other people in Miao community, which have "natural place" and "branch" two meanings usually. From the villages which were invited in the "cow fighting" in Fanpai village during the Miao New Year, we can see some villages were in the area of "natural place", and another part is belonging to it in the "branch". And the social communication of villages in those "natural place", because of the lacking of blood relationship, is based on building and maintaining marriages; Social communication between the villages in "branch" is the backbone of social interaction in Fanpai Miao people, it is not only because "branch" within the presence of blood relations, but also because the "branch" within the clothing, language and even the love songs brought the tone of the same cultural identity. If the anti-ranked as the center of our analysis, then the anti-arrangement with the nearby village of relations between social communications is not the same, but shows a certain closeness condition. As a result, we can see that the scope of social interaction of Miao generally for the "natural place , but in the same "natural place" area, the same "branch" as a priority within the exchanges, it is to say cultural identity plays a priority role in terms of social interaction. From this perspective, the "cultural system" theory of Prasenjit Duara is similar to the Department, the premise of social interaction is the same cultural identity, while the matrimonial circles is an important way on building and maintaining of social communication. (B) Festival, particularly the Miao New Year, is an important way of building and maintaining the social communication in Miao community. From the analysis of "cow fight" and Lusheng dance during the Miao New Year, we can see that the Miao New Year is an important way of building and maintaining the social communication. The competition system of "cow fight" is friendly, it adopted more and more villages to join the competition, and then it made the relationship between those villages getting stronger and stronger; For "cow fighting" competition held in the difference between the "master and guest", also corresponding to the relationship between the reception and received, which wine, meat, Ciba and other items in the "master" between "collection" and "Guest" between "reciprocal". Let us clarify the boundary of social interaction; Miao also become a link of social interaction. Lusheng activities in the jump, and the dancer from the dance Lusheng floor and clothes, as social communication, presenting himself before the conclusion of the "symbolic" power, as the affinity of the conclusion of facilitated; of Lusheng ground the audience's age and move, we can see the re-carding jump Lusheng activities at the significance of social interaction. Therefore, the Miao New Year as a social interaction based on social interaction nodes, but this conclusion is quite different from "market system theory" of Skinner.
Keywords/Search Tags:Social Communication, The Miao New Year, Fanpai
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