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A Fortune-teller

Posted on:2008-02-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H XuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360215496756Subject:Anthropology
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The culture of suanming as social and history phenomenon widely exists in therural life, with very important historic, theorical and practical value.Fortune-teller as the important promoters of the culture of suanming, whichplays an vital role in telling activities is a golden key to open the door of the cultureof suanming.Village's telling activities required fortune-teller and asker to participatein together.But a fortune-teller in the course of an activity which has always beendominated by fortune- teller, Through research fortune-teller, then inquires into thiskind of the culture of suanming, can be regarded as a shortcut to the whole package.But it is not enough to just study a fortune-teller must put him in the life village toinspect. The combinations are only then more advantageous to inspect the countrysideto tell fortunes the cultural phenomenon.In view of fortune-telling activities are more prevalent in rural areas of thecurrent situation, This paper studies a fortune-teller who is Cheng tian Sun, from hislife experience, telling activities, rural life, and other aspects of village life to dodescriptive study. And with the anthropology angle of view from aspect and so oncultural inheritance, village life, existence reasons makes the village to tell fortunescultural the case study.The village telling efforts to have a more in-depth understanding of the culture ofsuanming. The culture of suanming in the village to have the thorough understanding,must put the cultural phenomenon which appears local place in the socialenvironment to inspect, needs to clarify it to the local significance, as well as how hasthe function to community's function and the function on human's body. Therefore thearticle has no alternative but to borrow several core concepts: The cultural need, thesocial system, the basic personality structure, in order to establishes a completetheoretical analysis frame.In the social environment and its lives which fromfortune-teller inspects the the culture of suanming, not only may provide to inspectthe Chinese society basic unit the culture of suanming the angle, moreover regarding understood the Chinese tradition society the complete picture also has thesignificance very much. Mainly uses the anthropology in the investigation method thefieldwork to involve and to act according to the research goal and the object of study,has designed the related questionnaire.The synthesis has utilized the interview law,the questionnaire law, the quota and the qualitative research technique and so on, usedthe network resources to carry on the material fully to search for.
Keywords/Search Tags:Fortune-teller, Anthropology, The culture of suanming, Case study
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