Dong Organizations In Cultural Anthropology Interpretation

As for the study of the Dong Nationality's article organization, it was put down in writing in Chinese documents as early as the Song Dynasty. From the current situation, except for the Yuan Dynasty, every dynasty had record after it. There were increasingly more and more detailed and specific records. At first, it was only put down in writing by someone later, there were official and private records. We can call these records research into the Dong Nationality's article organization carried out by the Han Nationality and outsiders. Some specific items and clauses of article organization and stipulations of an agreement have largely circulated among the Dong People. The Dong Nationality call them "articles", "article words", or "chant scriptures". We can consider these "public praised documents" as achievements in the research into article organization carried out by native researchers. Soon after new China was founded in 1949, under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, the department concerned launched collecting and arranging work of "Nationality folk three pairs of integrating." After reforming and opening, the department concerned organized people to arrange ancient books of the Dong article words. A text of tens of thousands of characters has been published formally. Besides, there are nearly one hundred essays by researchers published in kinds of magazines in the past 30 years, and a works specially researching into Dong article organization. We can call these achievements in research the ones gained by native scholars together with other nationalities under the conduct of the theory concerned.This thesis is based on the achievements in research above, which does research into Dong article organization by means of anthropology such as the document and investigation in the field. It finds out our predecessors' insufficiency in study, corrects its indistinct and even wrong views and conclusion and let people have a clear and plain understanding of the organization.This thesis has seven chapters.Kinds of the document and the records of the article organization are discussed in the first chapter. On this base, it proves the cause of article organization. The document is divided into Han and Dong language document. The study of the Dong language document was often neglected in the past. This kind of division can make up the insufficiency of the former document division and gain more researching information. That dual character factor existed in Dong society for a long time resulted in article organization, namely it was ruled by feudal dynasty and at the same time, its own social origination developed. They grew and declined. The social character of article organization is discussed in the second chapter. It is the most indistinct part in the past achievements in research. It gives logical explanation to chapter One and helps to understand the following chapters. If you can understand this problem very well, you will be able to settle the argument over article words.The third chapter makes the structure and levels of article organization and other social organization relation clear. What's more, it inquires into its inner relation. Through studying, I think its organization structure is that it is small on top and big at the base just like a triangle. In physics, it is a relatively stable structure. Because of this, the situation of Chapter Four is easily formed.Chapter Four deals with the ways of contacting. Gathering place and organizing. Article organization has its own structure, but as long as it has no organizing activities, it is not easy for us to see its existence. Only when it has organizing activity, can we feel it existence. Just because of this, Han, Dong language document, ancient document and modern document have some records about it. This chapter will discriminate the content of these document records. I think in contact, there is sound information and video information. In the collecting place, they have different names but also have their own usage. In organizing activity, nationality is their starting point.Chapter Five discusses stipulations of an agreement of article organization. In the past achievements, it was thought that stipulations were "article according to the law", it was the laws of the Dong Nationality or customary law. In this chapter, I think article organization has different texts and different contents in different periods. In the early period, the content of "Stone Text" was single; Then the content of "Article Word Text" was all-around, specific and had legal character. At last, the content of the "Text Carved on the Stele" was not as wide as content of article word text. But it could be operated. Because there were different texts and contents, when they made rules, they used pledge, they are called stipulations of an agreement. That is to say, they wanted to agree on these articles.The sixth chapter deals with the changes of the article organization. The problem with changes is a prolonged popular problem. Besides stating theory, this chapter mainly recounts the background of changes in details, which didn't happen in the former study. What's more, real examples are given after investigating and paying visits, which makes the discussion to the character of changes clear.Chapter Seven inquires into several theory problems with ethnology and cultural anthropology such as changes, practice, centre and edge. I think, changes can be regarded as historic and vertical, while practice is horizontal.The two can complement each other. As a social organization, the Dong article organization exists in the Dong society for a long time, it has not only character of cultural heritage but also oral and non-material heritage content. For this measures such as "culture space" protection, static state protection and trends protection have been put forward for these heritage.Article organization having a long-term effect on the Dong Nationality makes its nationality character have article factors. Today when we build harmonious society, why should we carry out this project, this part will also give a discussion.