“八蛮”神考释

Textual Research on Baman

"八蛮"是西南各地傩祭活动中常见的一个神灵形象,其少数民族身份,在各地端公科仪中有较为明确之载录,但各地对其身世、来历以及族别却有不尽一致的表述。这一神灵形象已成为面向区域社会的"箭垛式人物",是端公及其文化活动进行集体想像与话语建构的对象。

＂Baman＂is a common divine image of Nuo-cult everywhere in the southwest.The ethnic identity of Baman is clearly recorded in the Duangong rituals,but there are different statements in different places about its life experience and ethnical belonging.The image of God has become a Jianduo type character which faces the regional society and has proved to be the object of the collective imagination and discourse construction of Duangong and its cultural activities.