文化的他者:20世纪初至40年代盘瓠神话研究

The Cultural Others: Research on the Pan Hu Myths from the Early 1920s to the 1940s

20世纪初至40年代,盘瓠神话作为文化个案引起中国本土以及西方、日本学者的关注,在他们的研究中,更多将其视为图腾信仰理论之中国个案并纳入全球犬图腾信仰地图中,这也就将盘瓠神话之群体纳入西方从16世纪开始建构的全球文明秩序与文明等级中。盘瓠神话阐释背后的文明/野蛮、进步/落后之文化标准和意识形态价值判断在当下依然有留存,企望通过这一学术梳理,进一步反思当下人文社会科学的结构性问题和深层的文化秩序观念。

From the early 1920s to the 1940s,the Pan Hu myths attracted much attention from Chinese, western and Japanese scholars. In their research these myths were deemed as totem worship, included in the global dog totem map. This means that the groups involved in the Pan Hu myths were integrated into the global civilization order and rank system constructed since the 16th century. It is argued that the binary values depicted in the Pan Hu myths, such as civilized/savage and advanced/backward, still exist in contemporary ideology. It is hoped that this research can contribute to contemplations on contemporary human social sciences in terms of structures as well as concepts on profound cultural order.