《后汉书·东夷列传》与秦汉时期东北边疆民族的民族志述论

On History of Later Han Dynasty——Dong Yi Biography and the Ethnographies of Northeastern Frontier Ethnic Groups in Qin and Han Dynasties

《后汉书·东夷列传》以丰富的资料论述了夫余、挹娄、高句骊、沃沮、濊等东北边疆的民族,而且还用了大量的篇幅来记述这些民族的文化。在所记述的文化当中,表现了夫余、挹娄、高句骊、沃沮、濊等东北边疆民族鲜明的地域特征。从历史人类学的视角来看,这种以文化为中心的记述,实际上是秦汉时期东北边疆民族的民族志书写,是我们今天从整体上认识东北亚地区民族文化的重要文献依据。

History of Later Han Dynasty——Dong Yi Biography offers abundant information about such northeast frontier ethnic groups as the Fuyu,Yilou,Koguryo,Okjeo and Hui and devotes a large portion of the book to description of the cultures of those peoples. The cultures described in the book are marked by distinctive regional characteristics of the northeast frontier ethnic groups. From the perspective of historical anthropology,such culture-centered account is in the real sense the ethnography of the ethnic minority groups in the northeast borderland in the Qin and Han dynasties,and the book has become an important work of reference for us to arrive at a comprehensive understanding of the national cultures in Northeast Asia.