Anthropological Study Of Heritage Education Of Minority Cultural Network

Since 1990s, internet rapidly has turned out to be the biggest computer network in the world. At this turn of the two centuries, internet has broken the traditional concept of geopolitics, geo-economics and geo-culture. Hence a virtual space based on digital information has brought the whole world together, where there is no boundary of countries, cultures and languages. The Ministry of Post and Tele Communication of China started to provide the service of internet to Chinese public in 1995, and up till now total internet users in China comes to 3.38 hundred million with a 25.5% rate of popularization presently. Nowadays the popularization and application of internet in minority areas has formed a certain scale. The broad bandwidth network services of the top three network operators in China——China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom have covered most parts of ethnic minority areas. Both autonomous prefectures and counties have built their own internet portals for governments. Being a very important media of spreading social information and transmitting knowledge, internet has brought a revolutionary leap to human information propagation modes; internet plays a deep role and has a great influence on the inheritage and education of national minorities.Guided mainly by the theories of educational anthropology, the application of educational anthropology, the science of internet communication and the science of educational technology, this dissertation makes both cross discipline nary study in theories and thorough empirical research with the synthetic adoption of literature method, survey research and participant observation. This dissertation will first interpret the cultural inheritance of Chinese ethnic minorities from the perspective of a mass communication propagation mode, in order to establish a vivid, simple and clear frame for the study of internet inheritance of ethnic minorities'cultures. Secondly it will further analyze and interpret the culture inheritance from the following aspects:who is speaking, what is being said, to whom is he speaking, in which channel. Taking Chinese Korean people of Korean Autonomous Prefecture of Yanbian as our study case, we focus our field study on the Yanbian district. Then we further interpret the present situation and problems facing the Yanbian Korean internet cultural propagation mode. In the end, studying from the perspective of educational anthropology, we reflect on some problems arising with the internet cultural inheritance of ethnic minorities such as the digital divide, information explosion and cultural hegemony.This dissertation is constructed by the following four parts.Chapter one:The exordium. This part expounds the origin, the significance, research thought, theoretical basis and main methods of this research. This part mainly does literature review on three aspects which have close relation with this study. They are "the cultural inheritage amongst ethnic minorities, the internet mode of propagation and the influences of internet on the ethnic minorities'cultural inheritage". This part also defines such core concepts as what are ethnic minorities' cultures, the inheritage of ethnic minorities'cultures and the modes of cultural inheritage amongst ethnic minorities. It presents and reviews both the history and the development of cultural inheritage amongst ethnic minorities.Chapter two:The cultural inheritance of ethnic minorities on the internet in information societies. First of all, by using the theory of mass communication propagation modes, not only will the main subject be deciphered but the mode of cultural inheritance of ethnic minorities will be expounded. Based on this mode, a summary of the key factors and main contents of the cultural inheritance of ethnic minorities will be made; secondly, it analyzes the cultural inheritance of ethnic minorities on the internet from three aspects:its emergence and development, the definition and mass communication propagation modes. This analysis provides a vivid, simple and clear frame for the study of cultural inheritance of ethnic minorities'cultures on the internet; finally, this part systematically expounds the following factors of the study subject——the categories of ethnic minorities'cultural websites, the cultural choices of those websites, the characteristics of cybercitizens amongst ethnic minorities and then traits of this internet media.Chapter three:A field investigation of Chinese Korean's cultural inheritance via internet in Yanbian. Taking the cultural inheritance via internet in Yanbian as our study case, by questionnaire surveys in paper and through the internet, indepth interview and participant observation, we questioned the following topics:the circumstances of Yanbian's internet environment, the cultural cognition and heritage of Yanbian Korean nationalities, cultural websites and contents of Yanbian district, and the current situation of how the Korean net users'application of the websites. Thus in this chapter we make rounded, meticulous and objective comment on the presently existing problems about Chinese Korean's cultural inheritance via internet in Yanbian.Chapter four:An educational anthropology analyses of internet cultural inheritance of ethnic minorities. In this chapter the perspective returns from the field back into theorizing. Based on the perspective of educational anthropology, this dissertation elaborates on culture's openness, diversification and digitization during the process of cultural inheritance via the internet. It also analyzes some phenomena introduced by them, namely digital divide, information explosion and cultural hegemony, and then lays stress on the analysis and interpretation of such topics as culture acculturation, culture safety and conflicts. As conclusion, this dissertation proposes constructive solution to the aforementioned issues.