许让神父及其汉藏边地研究

Father Louis Schram and His Study on Kansu-Tibetan Frontier

许让既是比利时圣母圣心会在华传教士,又是学者,研究过甘肃汉藏边地的蒙古尔人。他的一生可细分为四个阶段,即早期求学经历,汉藏边地的十年传教生涯,在华传教的生涯后期以及在美国成为民族学家的岁月。他对蒙古尔人族源、蒙古尔人首领双重身份等的关注与探讨,以及对蒙古尔人宗教生活的细致刻画等在学术史上,至今仍有重要的学术价值。他以汉藏边地为一整体区域,对蒙古尔社会进行全面细致的记述与分析,同时不忽略生活于其间的其他群体,开启了安多区域研究的先声。迄今为止,许让对于汉藏边地蒙古尔人社会文化的记录是最全面、最权威的,他的研究记述应当在土族研究、安多区域研究等诸多领域受到应有的重视。

Louis Schram,CICM,is both a missionary and scholar,who studied the Monguors of the Kansu-Tibetan frontier.His life can be divided into four phases,including the early study experience,ten years of missionary work among the Kansu-Tibetan frontier,later in his missionary career in China,and the period in United State where he became an ethnologist.His research,about the attention and discussion on the origin and chief’s dual status of the Monguors,as well as the detailed description of their religious life,still has tremendous value in the academic history.He regarded the Kansu-Tibetan frontier as a whole area,presented and analyzed comprehensively every aspects within the Monguor society living in this area,meanwhile,not ignored other ethnic groups among this area.He pioneered the area studies in Ando district.so far,Schram’s records about the Monguor society and culture is the most comprehensive and authoritative,and which should be given more interest in many fields such as the study of Monguor,the area studies in Ando district and so on.