走向民间、走向田野的审美人类学

The Aesthetical Anthropology with Populace and Farmland Orientation

中国的审美人类学是在对中国美学的反思中诞生的,有着鲜明的“民间意识”、“语境意识”和“田野意识”。它主张借鉴文化人类学的方法,关注中国民族民间丰富独特的审美创造活动和艺术,以改造传统美学的西方中心主义、精英主义倾向,恢复和激活美学对民族审美传统和当代文化发展的思考,增强美学解决本土问题和现实问题的能力,并使美学的抽象思考建立在扎实的人类学的实证调查和丰富材料上,使美学研究既具有超越品格,又具有现实情怀和实践精神。

China＇ s Aesthetical Anthropology was born in the course of the reflection of China＇ s Aesthetics, with the distinctive ＂populace consciousness＂, ＂awareness of speaking circumstances＂ and ＂farmland consciousness＂. It advocates to take anthropological methodology as the reference, to pay close at- tention to the rich popular aesthetical creative activities and arts, therefore, to reform the traditional aesthetics which was with western centered, and elite centered orientation, in order to restore and to stimulate aesthetical reflections of national aesthetical tradition and contemporary cultural development, furthermore, to enhance the ability of aesthetics in dealing the native and realistic problems. The abstract aesthetical way of thinking should be based on the sound practical anthropological investigation, to make aesthetical study a field with the surpassing character as well as with realistic emotion and practical spirit.