屯堡文化的价值——与宋茨林先生商酌

The Value of Tunpu Culture——Discuses with Mr. Song Cilin

文章是对宋茨林先生发表在《安顺学院学报》2008年第一期的《是历史遗存还是现代包装——"屯堡重塑"中的热点和冰点》一文中一些观点的应答。针对宋文的某些质疑,文章解释文化"重塑"和"再建构"概念主要是针对社会上关于屯堡文化"活化石""六百年不变"的观点提出的,同时也强调指出这两个概念是当前国内外学术界很普及的一个概念。"重塑""再建构"绝不意味从无中生有,而只是一种文化的动态过程。文章还进一步指出在实践中,当前文化旅游的商业性包装是屯堡文化"活化石"观点的主要原因之一。

This paper is a response to some points of Mr. Song Cilin＇ s article ＂Historical archaic, or Modern Package？＂, published in Aoshun College Journal, 2008, 1. In this response the writers discussed some of the fundamental concepts, point out that all cultures are always being reshaped and reinvented. This is a basic understanding of contemporary cultural theory. The title of （Reinventing Tunpu： Cultural Tourism and Social Change in Guizhou） is meant to convey this idea, and use it to argue that the idea of tunpu culture having survived as a ＂living fossil＂ without change for 600years. This paper also noted that the way of tourism marked tunpu culture is one of the important reasons for the idea of tunpu culture as living fossil.