Space Concept And Ethnic Identity

Anthropologists consider that the term of ethnic identity not only means the identity of the ethnic group itself and its own traditional literary, but also the inter-ethnic ideas and relative behavior which gradually come into being during one ethnic group contact with other ethnic groups. Furthermore, this identity will be expressed through different social literary symbols in explicit or implicit way, and be transferred as ethnic memory generation by generation. To those ethnic groups not in the main social stream and during its social change period, the inner-driven spirit to build ethnicity will be more important and meaningful in many ways.In the southwest edge of Qingzang highland where Sino-tibet cultures are mixed, and where Kang region being the principal part in such fringe field of geography, ecology and natural resources, a special form of folksong called Xianzi has existed since seventeenth century. As a text-research case in literary anthropology, this thesis engaged in studying how the special ethnic group of Kangba (the people of Tibet in Kang region)1 which on the fringe of zoology, ethnic groups and culture, through Xianzi-the lively folksong, choose and record some special historical moments as ethnic memory to build its own Concept of dimension and how the Concept be transferred; and then, the thesis will analyze this Concept's deep influence on ethnic identity and culture identity of Kangba.