A Study On The Social Culture Of Herdsmen In Qinghai Lake

From the perspective of cultural anthropology, this paper emphatically discusses the Qinghai lake herders social culture involved in the study of many aspects, and uses the field investigation and case study method, the Qinghai lake herdsmen the changes of the social culture carries on the discussion and reflection, in-depth analysis of the Qinghai lake herders in the modern context of culture awareness and social transformation.This article will pick the subsistence of Qinghai lake herdsmen social culture, marriage, kinship and religious life level as the research Angle of view, to prepares Jiangxi ditch village community of Qinghai province as the research point of view, analyzed the Qinghai lake herdsmen’s traditional social culture in different forms and influence of social change, explore the social transformation period in Qinghai lake herdsmen multi-exchange of social culture, its social and cultural generality and individuality and the local social and cultural interaction and adjustment in the new period, the specific chapters divided as follows.Article begins with the introduction, the full text is divided into five parts, including the introduction part of the main topics of this paper purpose, research significance, the domestic and foreign research present situation and the theory support and research methods are analyzed.In the first chapter in the region of Jiang xigou regional culture made panoramic introduction, mainly introduced the ditch township of Jiang xigou geographical and ecological environment, the division of population distribution, population situation and the historical development of the local context. In history and the development of the Qinghai lake, this section introduces the change process of living around the nation, to the Qing dynasty, because of the invading Mongol tribes were forced to migrate to the area south of Yellow River in the nomadic tribe after the Mongolian and Tibetan forces and the change of the manzu rulers of decision-making, the original nomadic in Tibetan tribes, and the north river around Qinghai lake, eventually formed around eight families of the nowadays situation of process, through the history books and local oral memory to trace their migration characteristics and after analysis of the Qinghai lake region around eight social formation of the social and historical roots, the family at the same time, through the characteristics of hot to understand local herdsmen family structure and the organization form of Dewa.In the second chapter on the part of the production and skills:living in the way, I’m in the perspective of local animal husbandry, agriculture and services, and describes in detail the nomads of the subsistence mode of the past and present, including the traditional division and grazing livestock pastures composition proportion and classification of transfer, livestock and is dominated by the country’s farming technology introduction and farmland ownership dispute, as well as modernization under the background of the development of tourism and local knowledge into the process of commodity, and analyzed the livelihood of the local herdsmen traditional livelihoods approach to modern change of the pattern of the trouble.In the third chapter, in accordance with the traditional anthropology research train of thought on the local herdsmen’s marriage and family system was studied, under the premise of the whole process in the description of the ceremony of marriage customs, marriage customs of the local cultural characteristics are analyzed. And contribute to the traditional family type and modern family types on the basis of the comparison, analyzes the population structure and the change of intermarriage circle, I will be in the last section of the local herdsmen’s relatives appellation of relatives appellation way and the other Tibetan agriculture mode on the basis of the comparison, finds out the individuality and commonness, and then discusses the different relatives appellation system because of the rights and obligations.Beliefs and ceremonies at the end of the chapter:herdsmen modes of religious life, first of all, with his own field research the material description of the local Tibetan Buddhism belief, and the local religious circles within the organizational structure of the temple with the living Buddha system, and the local rich folk myths and mountain temple and herdsmen’s interaction.