A Study Of Gifts And Their Flow In The Villages Of The Tibetan Area Of ​​Amdo

Presents’ presentation and return form is a common social behavior of human life,is a typical study subject in anthropology.People construct private social relationship net and reconstruct and harmonize the relationship between different social group of humans and different social units by presenting and exchanging presents in daily life.There are lots of papers about presents which are all written by foreign and Chinese scholars,but their research papers’ contents don’t concern about Tibetan presents’ exchanging culture.Therefore,in this paper mainly focus on Rebgong area’s Sadkyil village’s presents’ giving culture to study and analyze Tibetan rural villages’ presents’ giving culture.The text depends on observation to the Sadkyil villages’ villagers’ daily behaviors to illustrate the form,rule and social functions of giving presents’ culture in Tibetan rural area.Especially illustrates the offering and return presents’ form between gods or deities and local people.Furthermore,illustrates the different ethnic groups presents giving culture by comparison.This text can be divided into six main parts,they are preface,four main body of this paper’s four chapters and conclusion parts.They are as follows.In preface part firstly introduces about the literature review which have been published by foreign and Chinese scholars.Secondly introduces the fieldwork location and it’s brief history,Baihu social rule(local traditional social rule)and livelihood.In the first chapter life ritual as the main clue the to illustrate the expressing presents form in such occasion and the giving presents’ form in daily life.In second chapter mainly illustrates the form of offering and return presents between gods or deities and local people.Third chapter depends on first and second chapters’ contents to analyze the reciprocal rule which the local people needs to follow.In the fourth chapter depends on third chapters’ contents to conclude and analyze Sa dkyil villages’ giving presents form’s characters and it’s social functions.