仪式的物及其社会象征--桂西盘瑶村落还盘王愿仪式中的祭品研究

Ritual Objects and Their Social Symbolic Meanings——A Study on the Ritual Objects Used in the Pan-wang Ritual in the Yao Villages in West Guangxi

通过桂西盘瑶村落还盘王愿仪式反映的祭品文化,对仪式中用于献祭和交换的物及其社会象征进行分析,并试图说明仪式中物的分类与瑶族社会结群有密切联系,因而还愿祭品作为特殊的物,参与了神圣与世俗相互建构的社会过程。认为瑶族还盘王愿研究可以结合宗教仪式与社会结群两个研究旨趣,进一步透过仪式中的物来认识该仪式对瑶族社会的意义。

This paper, through the culture reflected in ritual objects used in the Pan--wang Ritual in the Yao Villages in west Guangxi, analyzes the ritual objects and their social symbolic meanings, and tries to prove that the classification of these ritual objects are closely related to the grouping of the Yao villagers. Therefore, the special ritual objects play a part in the social process of the mutual construction of divinity and worldliness. The paper also argues that religious rituals and social grouping should be combined in the study of the Pan-- wang Ritual so that the significance of this ritual on the Yao society can be fur- ther understood.