西方人类学史上非象征人类学家的象征研究

Non-Symbolic Anthropologists' Studies on Symbol in the History of Western Anthropology

在西方人类学史上,一些非象征人类学家在论述各自的理论学说时也或多或少地涉及到象征符号的各种表现形式和意义,并形成了与此相关的诸多重要研究成果。本文对泰勒、博厄斯、莫斯、拉德克利夫-布朗等四位不同理论学派的著名人类学家在象征研究方面的建树做了一番梳理和解读,以便人们对象征人类学的来龙去脉有更为清晰的认识。

In the history of western anthropol the various manifestations and meaning of symbols they gained ogy, some non -symbolic anthropologists concerned with more or less in the discussion of their own theories, so some important achievements about symbol. In order to show the cause and effect of the symbol- ic anthropology＇ s theories ＆ methods, the authors hackle and interpret four famous anthropologists＇ contri- bution to symbolic research in this paper. They are Taylor, Franz Boas, Mauss, and Radcliffe -Brown, who belonged to different schools.