“都市民俗学”抑或“现代民俗学”?--以日本民俗学的都市研究为例

“Urban Folklore” or “Modern Folklore” ? — Take the Japanese Folklore Study on City as an Example

从1970年代起,随着城市化进程的不断推进,日本民俗学开始把视线转向都市,由此产生了"都市民俗学"的概念。都市民俗学一度成为日本民俗学近代转型的一个方向。但是,随着研究的推进,"都市民俗学"遇到了诸多问题。这些问题并不是民俗学研究对象从农村转向城市所带来的,而是存在于认识论和方法论的更深的理论层面。"都市民俗学"开始逐渐被"现代民俗学"这一名称所取代。

Since 1970s,with the urbanization,Japanese folklore has started to keep their eyes on cities,and then raised the concept of 'Urban Folklore' which was once a direction of Japanese folklore transition.However,'Urban Folklore' gradually faced a lot of challenges which were not caused by the shift of objects from countryside to city but by the problem of epistemology and methodology.Thus,'Urban Folklore' has gradually been replaced by 'Modern Folklore'.