人类生育、社会控制与文化心理氛围——从民族志材料出发对生育文化的讨论

本文由一个农村社区入手 ,结合人类学中的民族志材料 ,讨论了社会文化控制与人类生育的关系问题。指出人类生育带有浓厚的社会文化痕迹 ,社会文化控制对人类生育会产生重大的影响 ,而其间直接对个体行为发生作用的是文化心理氛围 ;由此还引出生育文化的论题。

Human Reproduction, Social Control and Cultural Psychological Climate: A Discussion of the Culture of Reproduction with Reference to Ethnographic Records

Based on the fieldwork in a rural communityand coupled with ethnographic records in anthropological literature, this paper discusses the relationshipbetween socio-cultural control and human reproduction.It points out that the socio-cultural control has exerted strong effects on the behavior of human reproduction, and the cultural psychological climate has playedan important role and functioned in a direct way in this process. At the end of the paper, the culture of reproductionis also discussed.