国际人类学视域中的中国瑶族身份认同——李瑞福《另版中国:瑶族及其国民归属感研究》评析

The Yao's Ethnic Identity and National Belonging in an American Anthropological Perspective: On Ralph A. Litzinger's Other Chinas:The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging

美国人类学家李瑞福(Ralph A.Litzinger)是当代西方人类学界中国族群研究领域的主要代表人物之一,他关于中国瑶族的学术名著《另版中国:瑶族及其国民归属感研究》通过分析瑶族知识精英的自我呈现和论述,揭示瑶族的民族意识及其积极融入国家体系的国民归属感建构过程,以民族志叙事和人类学分析的学术语言深刻展现了中国少数民族心目中对自己所属国家的理解、认同和归属感,给西方世界的读者展示了一个与以往国际汉学著作大相径庭的另版中国,一个多民族版本的中国。与此同时,该著也为中国国内民族研究学术界反思自己的研究提供了一块不可多得的"他山之石",具有诸多启示意义。

Ralph A. Litzinger is one of the prominent American scholars in the field of Chinese ethnicities, and his book entitled Other Chinas： The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging has presented to the world a version of multiethnic China where minority peoples rewrite their histories to reverse the discourse of marginality and primitiveness into the center of national building. This monograph unfolds the Yao＇ s perception of and negotiation with the Chinese nation and state in the historical contexts of post - socialist China, where the ethnic identity and national belonging are constructed hand -in -hand as the contributions of ethnic minorities are recognized through the Yao＇ s self representations and ＇ memory work＇ of historical reimagining.