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The Social And Cultural Changes Of Minority Immigrant Community——Field Study In Yunqiao Community

Posted on:2016-05-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y LiangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330470954068Subject:Ethnology
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Yunqiao community lies in Kunming, it is a Yi Community that has been in the Culture Changing. A hundred years ago, Bimo has prevailed here for centuries, until the Christian missionaries walked into the village, the locals made contact with modern civilization. Early2000s, the village has experienced the whole village relocation, came from the mountains into the city, became to a semi-rural semi-modern communities. From the Zhangjiu River to relocate Yunqiao community for more than a decade, the YunQiao people not only keep the Yi traditional characteristics, adhere to the Christian faith, and fully interact with the Han culture, leading to a "multi-cultural culture" phenomenon. On the urbanization and modernization of the track, the Christian faith and Yi culture distinguish or reconcile continuing operations in the process of social relations, Yunqiao community culture has also been gradually shaped into a complex multi-cultural complex. This cultural change process involves multi-ethnic, multi-faith, multi-element interaction; synchronic point of view, this process also included the game and weigh in the same community within the different cultural systems.Introductory part introduces the field point, author tells the story about the first time to go into the YunQiao community, are attracted to local culture and Christian faith, generating ideas of about the process of community culture changes. Meanwhile, the author reviewed previous research results, the formation of a literature review, the article attempts to give more powerful theoretical support.The first chapter reviews the history of people’s living in YunQiao community, including YunQiao ethnic origin people in the living conditions of Zhangjiu River Basin, Bimo religious belief and political life changes.The second chapter introduces the incoming of the Christian faith in the early20th century, so the locals and Western civilization the first intimate contact. The arrival of missionaries, not just built a church, built schools, not just brought medicines, match and suits, more importantly, a great ideological shift. For this reason, lifestyle of the Yunqiao community, customs and festivals are quietly changing. The third chapter focuses on the YunQiao people were officially moved to here now, came to the city from the surrounding area inhabited by the Yi, and had close contact with modern civilization. Before and after the relocation, local livelihoods, religious beliefs, habits, neighborhood and residential patterns and so had a very significant changing.The fourth chapter describes the main elements involved in YunQiao community in the process of urbanization from the spiritual to the material aspects of the transition, the first exit and the rise of Christianity Bimo, and thus is the interaction of objects and changes in livelihood patterns, and finally is a multi-faith, multi-cultural hybridity parallel.In conclusion, author tried hard to tell the story about YunQiao community, to find the conditions and drivers of minority cultural changes, to find multi-faith and multi-cultural interaction in the balance.
Keywords/Search Tags:Yi, Cultural changes, Cultural fusion, Christianity, Relocation
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