Research On Kinship Network And Belief Customs In Xiaobajiazi Village, Jilin Province,1796-2011

Xiaobajiazi, Southeast35kilometers away from the urban area, northeast45kilometers from the county, is located in the northwest of Changchun city, Jilin province. The village was established in1796, at the beginning, there were8families from Zhili, Shandong province and other places, so they named the village Xiaobajiazi. Until2011, the whole village had2518people,98%of whom are Catholics. From1844, the establishment of the small seminary, to1947,22French missionaries held the post of the parish priest for more than one hundred years. As a village community in the northeast of China, the unique construct of Catholic belief in Xiaobajiazi which has great matter with missionary policy of Western Catholic, frontier reclamation, natural survival circumstances and the instinct of spiritual needs in medium-term Qing dynasty is a quite complicated process of society integration and transcultural history fusion. Society integration is conscious, while culture fusion is unconscious. Between them, a serious drama of history which was on show possesses very important academic research value.This thesis attempts to use historical anthropology research methods, from the microscopic view into history of meeting between Chinese and Western culture. Since2009, on the one hand we learnt the history basic skill and searched and collected various relevant history materials, on the other hand we adopted anthropological fieldwork methods to interview in the village inside and outside, and then gradually drew the outline of the history of the village through recording the oral content from different villagers. We paid great attention to the relation between recalling, forgetting, narrative content and so on and the identity of narrative villagers. Fortunately we found four village history written by the villagers themselves of four years which helped us to check the audiovisual materials during the interview, became precious materials to confirm the oral history.Compared with the ancient villages in the Central Plain or the villages of noble family in south of the Yangtze river, Xiaobajiazi is a village of fugees with just215years whose history is short. Being different from the villages forming natrually, from naming the village to village organization and leaving or remaining of villagers, Xiaobajiazi was artificial fait social called by the father of sociology E.Durkheim which highlights three principle characters of fait social:externality, extension and force of constraint. Combining the theory of sociology and Science of Religion and consulting other achievement of research on the kinship in the northeast area of China, this research concentrates to describe the kinship network in Xiaobajiazi, analysis the relation with the belief and the function of maintaining the social order, and refine the characteristic of life-style.This thesis is divided into three parts. The first part is the introduction of history and general situation of Xiaobajiazi, including the construction of the village, the Catholic belief systematize and custom maintenance of basic structure as a community organization. The second part expounds the characteristic kinship in Xiaobajiazi, which contains the choice view, marriage network and the termination of marriage. The third part is mainly on the practice of kinship which includes relatives’generalization, simulative relationship and reciprocity between relatives and Catholicism mutual community to analysis the social order and stability mechanism of Xiaobajiazi.This thesis draws the following conclusions:As the absolute premise of marriage for the villagers in Xiaobajiazi, belief reflects the needs of spirit. In the same belief community, the marriage of the members is restricted with the belief which forms community self-identity of "Birds of a feather flock together". The simulative relationship among the Catholics not only embodies the three-dimensional hierarchy structure in the inside community, but also is the foundation of maintaining the social stability. It gradually formed a whole set of standards of social organization during more than200years. The meeting of different cultures in one place will produce the phenomena of cultural acculturation, cultural integration and so on, which may cause variation in the original sole cultural and forms transcultural new morphology.