家族与盐田经营——以海南岛盐田村为例

The Clan and Saltern Management at Yantian Village in Hainan Island

以物为线索,从经济与社会关系角度切入,首先通过对家庭、家族的构成与运作之考察,来分析家庭再生产过程中的盐田经营状况以及不同历史时期盐田经营中所展现出的家族关系,以具体的个案细微地描述了家族与盐田经营之间的关系,指出明确的社会分工所展现出的农工相辅的社会结构特点。其次,关注海盐流通与亲属关系的扩展,指明盐田妇女依托亲属关系拓展海盐市场的同时,相应地以海盐的流通扩大了通婚范围,不断促进盐田村亲属关系的扩展与延伸。这种经济嵌入社会的过程,正是岛屿社会中的盐田人进行盐田经营的文化逻辑。

Starting from the perspective of the economic and social relations, this paper, explores the structure and operation of families and clans, analyzes the management situation of salterns during the process of family reproduction and the clan relations in the saltern management, describes in details the relationship between the clans and the saltern management by means of case study, and figures out the social structure characteristic of the interconnection between peasants and workers which results from an explicit labor division. Moreover, the paper pays attention to the sea salt circulation and the kinship expansion, finding that the saltern women depend on the kinship to expand the sea salt markets and the sea salt circulation has correspondingly extended their scope of marriage, which in turn facilitates the expansion of the kinship in Yantian Village. Such a process of embedding economy in society is the cultural logic of saltern management for Yantian villagers.