文化生态视野下楚雄彝族的耕作与信仰

Farming and Faith of the Yi People of Chuxiong Viewed from the Perspective of Cultural Ecology

生计模式和生活方式决定着人们的知识系统、价值系统和信仰系统,以耕耘为主要生计模式的民族,意识形态里也打上相应的耕作烙印。彝族这一山地民族,在固守传统的旱作文化的同时兼有水田栽插的稻作文化,在具体环境里耕耘出一个个生动的文化——地理单元,坝区和山区两个文化地理单元中的彝族以满足需要为原则建构起相应的信仰体系。

Livelihood and living style determine our knowledge system, value system and faith system. A people mainly farm for livelihood, therefore, have their ideology bearing corresponding farming marks. Living in the mountains, the Yi people came to possess the paddy field culture while preserving their traditional dry farming culture and, by doing so, have created a number of dynamic cultures - their faith system created by the Yi people living in both the mountains and the valleys striving for millennia to make sure that their livelihood needs are met.