《阿诗玛》叙事话语的变化对民间文化研究的反思

作者从云南彝族撒尼人的民间叙事诗《阿诗玛》整理改编的历史梳理出发,认为更多的学者只是从历史的角度切入民间文化的研究,这种研究态度形成了当今中国民间文化研究的两大取向一是普同性倾向,漠视民间文化现象的地方性特点;一是社会进化论的线性视野,在潜意识中将民间文化看作是现代化的对立面。作者认为应关注民间的、边缘的或者地方性叙事,既是对历史和当下文化的一种实证态度,也能使不同的文化形态获得各自的生存空间,共同构建多元文化。

Reflections on Folk Cultural Studies in the Light of Change in the Narrative Discourse of ''''Ashima

By going over the history of the adaptation and recomposing of 'Ashima, a folk narrative poem of the Sani People of the Yi ethnic group of Yunnan, the author ponders on the dilemma between the homogeneity trend of folk cultural studies and the heterogeneity of local cultures. Most scholars conduct studies on folk cultures merely from a historical angle, which lead to two trends in current folk cultural studies in China: the homogeneity trend, which neglects the endemic features of folk cultural phenomena, and the linear view of social evolutionism, which subconsciously puts folk culture on the opposite side of modernization. The author think that attention should be paid to folk, marginal or endemic narratives, which is both a positivist attitude towards history and current culture and a concern about the folk, marginal and endemic narratives excluded from the mainstream voices.