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House Not To Love: Bulk Mixed Context Of Ethnic Identity

Posted on:2008-05-25Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:L J ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360212485735Subject:Ethnology
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This article is a special study that aims at the Sangzhi Baizu.The diaspora feature and "Minjia"culture characteristic, which represents by the Sangzhi Baizu itself, have decided the distinctive speciality of this research. But also just because of the influence of the diaspora feature, since long ago the academe are less to research on the Sangzhi Baizu, this also enables this research to have the innovation. Through combing nationality theory, this article selects the ethnic identity as the spot of Sangzhi Baizu research, thus it develops the research of Sangzhi Baizu Culture well under the big background of diaspora and ethnic identity.This article to discuss thoroughly the Sangzhi Baizu history and the cultural will impel this domain to further research without doubt. The problems, involved in this article, including the survival problems and the ethnic identity problems are the common problems faced by many national minorities including Sangzhi Baizu. The conclusion of this article can be used as the reference or model function of other diaspora nationality. It helps to deal correctly with the relationship of diaspora nationality, and promotes the development of diaspora nationality.Taking as research method, field work as "the special skill" of the ethnology, also no doubt is the important research method of this article. Gaining the first material through different forms of visiting, talking,investigation and so on, has made the historical materials and field work double win. The historical literature is the direct foundation of tracing the nationality source and studying with textual. The history data of local chronicle, history book, genealogy, genealogy, etc. can make field date and literature date bring out the best in each other. One would not make great progress if he keep Sangzhi Baizu from the studding of Dali Bai nationality. Therefore, the related viewpoints and the comparison methods also are the important methods of this article.This article is on the assumption that there is the distinct difference based on the ethnic identity under the background of the diaspora and under the background of autonomous. It emphatically has discussed the two difference and the relation, and the level, structure, scope of ethnic identity under the background of diaspora. It tries highly to analyze the Sangzhi Baizu from the theory, and responds to other diaspora nationalities by this theory, and instructs the national relation development of diaspora. In the article, the major viewpoints have revealing the following: Faced problems by diaspora nationality concentratively represents the survival problems. This kind of survival problems has already contained in the biological significance survival question, what namely a kind of multiplication, nationality's survival, more having covered the material lay, and also in the cultural significance survival question, namely the culture inherits and continues, as well asthe cultural conflict, cultural vicissitude on the adaption, more having covered the spiritual lay. Sangzhi is the most north of the Baizu culture, it may be regard as the most edge of Bai culture. It is the most north that Bai nationality expand from south to north in the history ,and also is the boundary zone of the Bai culture.Sangzhi Baizu culture tenaciously has kept and inherited the partial connotations of Daili Bai nationality culture, simultaneously has accepted and integrated the culture feature of Sangzhi Tujia, Miao, Yao, ect., whether having consciousness or not, and vividly has manifested the rebuilt process of culture. This process looks as if silkworm coming out the chrysalides getting the new-born of culture, shapes a brand-new culture. This new-born culture is distinctly different from the national culture of Tujia, Miao, Yao, etc., and also notably different on the basis of inevitably relating with Daili Bai culture. This kind of newborn culture was the Sangzhi Baizu culture. The double identity that represents by the Sangzhi Baizu itself, contains the double identity of Bai and Han, and also the double identity of Dali and Jiangxi. In the article, the research, which contains the aspects of Sangzhi Baizu's language, religion, belief, common people residence construction, has the initiated significance. In addition, although the discussed major idea of this article is the ethnic identity, not others. But the flash spot still often flashed in this article. Such as: The geographical environment determinism already wasobsolete, but the environment of geography, history, humanities and so on still had the important influence to nationality status and the distinctive quality. Although monograph Baizu, also involved in the Bai culture and Tujia culture contacting and integrating, this has the reference value of common living on Sangzhi Tujia. This article is not to the cultural special study, but actually vividly elaborated "the culture is the bridge, and also is the wall" from the nationality boundary angle.The introductory remarks introduced the selected topic background, the significance, the research value and the related research results tracing.First chapter unifies Bai formation, the introductory development and the national distribution condition, elaborates the important status of Sangzhi Baizu, points out the level that only pauses to the population distribution, still is insufficient to fully promulgate the important status that Sangzhi Baizu holds in the whole Bai nationality, but also have to unify the Sangzhi Baizu culture distinctive quality enabling comprehensively to know its important status. This chapter not only reserves and establishes demonstration space of nationality identity, and pays the way for the coming discussed status identity and cultural identity in the following.Second chapter has examined the origin of "Minjia", said clearly the developing process that Sangzhi "Minjiaren" are used as Baizu, and itsthe distribution history and the present situation, and further discussed the national and the race group struggle which initiated from the nationality to recognize to nationality status identity to gain, and explains that the nationality status identity and the national ingredient confirmation are the distinct characteristic of nationality identity.Third chapter based on culture conception advocated by E. B. Taylor, exhaustively elaborates the important composition content that Snagzhi Baizu' language, the religion, the belief, The inhabitant Architecture, the custom of wedding and funeral, dance, music, ballad, and so on ,explains that the cultural identity is the important constituent of ethnic identity, also is the origin which nationality boundary formed.Fourth chapter states to further discuss the level and the structure of nationality identity under the background of the above chapters and Sanzaju nationality, and proves that the viewpoint of this article to diaspora nationality has applicability to some certain.
Keywords/Search Tags:Bai Nationality, Diaspora, Ethnic Identity, Sangzhi
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