文化境域中的诗性象征——侗族鼓楼的美学人类学解读

The Poetic Symbol in Cultural Circumstances——A Dissection of the Aesthetics And Anthropology of the Dong's Drum-tower

侗族鼓楼是侗族文化的标志性建筑 ,其丰富的文化功能及其精神意义构成了极有民族特性与风格的文化境域。从美学人类学的诠释角度对鼓楼这一文化事相进行解读 ,可以发现隐含于其中的大量的丰富象征。侗族人通过鼓楼这个高度形成化的建筑 ,将自己的宇宙论与人文论的文化诉求作出了诗性的叙述与表达。美学人类学的阐释意义在从这个巨大的象征符号中揭示出侗族文化的全幅图景。

The Dong's drum-tower is a symbolic building of Dong people's culture. The cultural function and the spiritual significance of the drum-tower have formed cultural circumstances full of folk characteristics and style. If we explain the very culture from the annotation of aesthetics and anthropology, we may find lots of such connotative symbols. Through the highly visualized building the Dong people make poetic and descriptive explanation of the pray of their cosmism and humanism. The annotation of aesthetics and anthropology intends to unveil a whole range of the Dong people's culture from the huge symbol.