铁和珠子:男性与女性的象征符号——一项关于博尔兰奥罗莫人饰品的研究

Iron and Beads:Symbols of Male and Female——A Study on Jewelry of Oromo People

人和文化都会时移势迁消失不见,但他们创造的物质文化却会留存,考古发现的这些物质文化,是理解制造和使用它的人们的思维方式和世界观的基础,可以用来重建过去。奥罗莫人在其日常生活中制造和使用的饰物,即是如此。文章尝试在相对完整的传统文化背景中,探索和展示"物"的部分意义,探讨了奥罗莫文化中一些仪式性物品,尤其铁和珠子等饰物的神话起源,如何在不同等级的社会中发挥功能——不仅仅象征神圣和尘世权力,而且象征丰产和性别。揭示其在奥罗莫文化世界观中的深层宗教价值。

With time passing and circumstance changing,both people and culture will disap- pear,but the material culture created by them will retain. Archaeological discoveries of such material culture are the basis of understanding the thinking modes and world views of the peo- ple who created and used the culture,and can be used to reconstruct the past. It is also true to the jewelry created and used by the Oromo people in their daily life. Under a relatively complete traditional cultural background, this paper attempts to explore and display partial meanings of ＂object＂. Thus it discusses some ritual articles of the Oromo culture ; especially it discusses the myth origins of such jewelry as iron and beads,and how they function as the sym- bols of the sacred and mundane power,and the symbols of fertility and genders. And lastly it reveals the deep religious values of such jlewelry in the world uiew of the Oromo culture.