社会记忆:民族文学作为族群叙事文本--以瑶族创世古歌《密洛陀》的族群认同功能为例

在当代社会文化人类学的研究中,“认同”(identity)研究成了近几十年来最“热”、最重要的问题之一,“认同理论”在很短的时间内广泛地为其他人文社会科学所借鉴和应用,批评理论也不例外。民族文学作为族群认同的一个文化栽体,为族群的自我认同提供了基础,诸如归属感、表达记忆的文本和认同共同的祖先等等。瑶族创世古歌《密洛陀》,包含有“一个族群的自我认同的多要素”,它同时对布努瑶族群、族群历史、族群认同和族群边界进行了建构和解释,并将族群、族群历史、族群认同和族群边界聚合为一个有机的整体,不断强化着族群中族民的认同和归属意识。

Social Memory: Ethnic Literature as the Text of Ethnic Narrative--With Ethnic Function of the old Songs of Creating World of Yao Ethnic Group Miluotuo as A Case Study

During the studies of modern social and cultural anthropology, identity has become one of the most favourate and important topics in the latest decades. Then the theory of identity is widely used for reference by other humane social sience in a short time. The theory of criticism also does so. Ethnic Literature, as a cultural carrier of ethnic identity, offers the basic of self- identity of ethnic group, such as the sense of belonging, the text of expressing memory and the identity of common ancestors. The old songs of creating world of Yao ethnic group Miluotuo, includes several key elements of self - identity of an ethnic group. At the same time, it has constructed and explained the ethnic group of Buluyao, history of ethnic group, ethnic identity and ethnic boundary. It also has got the above together into an organic entirety and continued to strengthen the identity and the sense of belonging of people in ethnic group.