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"Keeping Watch" And "Remodeling":A Study Of Rural Folk Museum From The Perspective Of Cultural Memory

Posted on:2024-07-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:T T LiangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2545307064977959Subject:Anthropology
Abstract/Summary:
China’s rural areas are the main birthplace of traditional folk culture and contain a large number of folk culture heritage resources.Under the development requirements of the new era,the continuation of rural excellent traditional culture has become the due meaning of development.Since the development strategy of rural revitalization was put forward at the 19 th National Congress,under the guidance of the“beautiful countryside” policy,many rural museums have sprung up all over the country,which embody the essence of local folk customs.These rural museums play a pivotal role in protecting and inheriting the material and intangible cultural heritage in regional society.At present,Chinese rural museums are generally the common participation of rural community residents,village committee dominated,and county and township government to assist the management of the development model,often in the form of cultural memory museum,village museum,folk museum and so on.The research object of the author is the Yue Folk Museum located in Y Village in northern Henan Province,which shows a typical form of rural museum construction,that is,the folk museum self-funded and self-built by rural cultural elites.While collecting,inheriting and protecting various traditional folk culture and handicrafts reflecting regional society,A comprehensive rural museum showing the process of cultural memory change in rural society.At present,the rural museum of our society is still in the development stage.In the past,scholars mainly took the village museum of ethnic minority areas as the case,and conducted the study on its development status,survival predicament and other problems,and few carried on the study on the cultural memory changes of the rural museum of the traditional ordinary Han villages.Therefore,this study mainly adopts the field ethnography method of anthropology to conduct a holistic study on the cultural memory changes of rural folk museum from the perspective of cultural memory and cultural reproduction,focusing on how rural folk museum reshaped the cultural memory space of regional society under the background of rural culture revitalization and transformation,and the cultural reproduction mechanism in this process.Specifically,the introduction part of this paper mainly introduces the topic selection background,research significance,research methods and the definition of key concepts,and explains the research ideas and methods of this paper on the basis of sorting out relevant theories and previous research results.The first chapter of the text is about the collation of the background information of the research object.In addition to the introduction of the population,geographical environment,culture and history of the village in the field,this chapter focuses on the establishment of Yue Folk Museum and the new development process of the project connecting the new countryside--“Happy Hometown” as an example.Through field observation and oral data collection,This paper describes the founding process and development status of Yue Folk Museum in detail,reveals the changing process of Y village’s cultural memory,and expounds the museum’s watch on rural social memory from the three aspects of artifacts,culture and etiquette.The second chapter of the text is about the sorting and analysis of the field data in the previous chapter,focusing on the rural folk museum’s reshaping of village social and cultural memory,including the reshaping of endogenous cultural memory and the reshaping of exogenous cultural services,and a brief analysis of the difficulties in the operation and development of the rural folk museum.In the third chapter of the text,the author regards the rural folk museum’s inheritance of local culture as a dynamic process of cultural memory reproduction.The analysis results show that the rural folk museum’s reproduction mechanism of cultural memory includes the complex connection between “local government,cultural elite and mass media”,which is based on the construction of “memory field”.Finally,it constitutes the ”power field” space of reproduction mechanism.Finally,the conclusion part of this paper is mainly to comb and summarize the content and context of the full text,and the future development of rural folk museum and the development of rural cultural undertakings.
Keywords/Search Tags:Village folk museum, Rural cultural memory, Cultural reproduction
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