民族精英与社会改革——以西双版纳傣族地区为例

The Ethnic Elite and Social Reform:A Case Study of the Dai Area of Xishuangbanna

个体与结构是人类学界较为关注的问题,是结构规约着个体,还是个体创造结构,成为一个剪不断、理还乱的悖论。长期以来,在保留着不同于主流社会形态的边疆少数民族地区,精英人物在社会运行中起着主导性作用。20世纪50年代初,随着社会主义生产关系的确立,在西双版纳傣族社会所开展的社会主义改造中,傣族民间精英人物为傣族社会纳入到统一多民族国家政治体系中起到了重要的纽带作用。

Individual and structure are one focus of anthropological studies, and whether structure regulates individual or individual creates structure has become an issue of antimony. In the border and minority area where the social forms are different from the dominant society, the elite have long played a key role in their social development. In the early 1950s when the socialist production relation was established and in the socialist reform that was carried out in the Dai area of Xishuangbanna, the Dai elite played a key role in helping integrate the Dai society with the unified national political system of China.