社会人类学视野下的族谱文化研究综述

Research Reviews of Genealogy Culture in the Context of Social Anthropology

族谱是中国人特有的家族史、家族记忆与文化、家族变迁的书写形式,也是一个以血缘关系为主体的家族世袭繁衍和重要人物的图书体裁。20世纪80年代的思想解放,中国掀起了"修家谱"的热潮,主要集中于华南客家群体、华北宗族中。其原因大致是改革开放所带来的经济收益引起了宗族对家族文化的重视与反思。文章主要从社会人类学角度分修谱的过程、修谱的行为意义、族谱与记忆、族谱与认同、族谱与利益(权力)五个方面对国内的研究论著做综述,最后指出研究的不足。

Genealogy is the unique written form of the history of family,family memory,family culture and family changes for Chinese,which is also a consanguinity-centered painting genre,recording family hereditary breeding and important persons. With the promotion of emancipation in the 1980s,compiling genealogy was on the rise,mainly covering the Hakka community in southeastern China and clan in north China. The reason was that the economic profits brought by reform and opening up made people appreciate and reflect their family culture. The dissertation mainly analyzes the process of compiling genealogy,the behavioral significance of compiling genealogy,genealogy and memory,genealogy and identity,genealogy and benefits( authority) from the perspective of social anthropology,and makes research reviews of the domestic research works. Finally the author figures out the shortcoming of the research.