"Ethnography Writing" From The Perspective Of Literary Anthropology

With the emergence of anthropological "crisis of expression and complaint",the "interpretive anthropology" created by Clifford geltz promoted the "literary turn of Anthropology",and then the infiltration of ethnographic writing by "anthropological Poetics" and "writing culture" in Chinese appeared one after another,and the interaction between literature and anthropology began.There are also many such interdisciplinary interactions in China,such as Yang Maochun’s "a Chinese Village: Shandong platform" and Lin Yaohua’s "golden wings".We can call this kind of work which contains the characteristics of ethnographic writing and literary writing "ethnographic writing".This "ethnographic writing" is more and more widely used in literary works,especially in Contemporary Chinese ethnic literature,such as the Yi ethnic group.In ancient times,the literary works of the Yi ethnic group in Liangshan were mainly epic literature,which began to appear after 1949.Modern and contemporary Yi minority literature creation not only combines a large number of "local knowledge" of Yi ethnic group,but also records the social changes of Yi ethnic group from the aspects of politics,economy and culture.The author tries to take the "ethnographic writing" of Yi ethnic group as an example to peep at the development track of the whole "ethnographic writing".This paper combines the field survey data in Zhaojue,Liangshan,cliff village survey,Bimo interview and writer interview.Through three Yi literature works of different genres,this paper makes a comparative analysis.Among them,"the southwest" is a novel rich in the history and culture of the Yi people;cliff village is a documentary reportage of the Yi People’s poverty alleviation changes;nomadic Liangshan is a collection of essays about the daily life of Liangshan.The purpose of this paper is to explore how different genres can achieve "ethnographic writing",to deeply explore the cultural symbols in contemporary Liangshan Yi literature works,to understand the ethnic memory contained in Yi literature works,and to interpret the "ethnographic writing" of Liangshan Yi from the perspective of literary anthropology.