礼俗的社会性表达——宁夏西海固回族“高价聘礼”现象的人类学观察

On Social Expression of Etiquette and Custom——Anthropological Survey on “High Bride-price” of Hui Zu in Xihaigu of Ningxia

近年来中国农村地区出现高价聘礼现象,西海固回族社会亦是存在着高价聘礼现象,理解西海固回族高价聘礼现象需将其放置于乡土中国的特定语境,既要看到聘礼本身为一种带有博弈性质的财产转移,同时乡土社会中的面子观和婚姻市场中稀缺资源的竞争,导致了西海固回族高价聘礼的出现。高人情伴随高价聘礼出现,客观上起到了困境中经济互惠互助的功能。

The ＂bride-price＂is an important part of human marriage culture, ＂asking for bride-price＂is an essential step of Chinese traditional marriage customs. In recent years, the phenomenon of high bride-price appeared in rural area that formed heavy burden on common people. It is prominent among the Hui Zu in Xihaigu . It is necessary to put the phenomenon in the particular context of local areas for helping us to understand it in Xihaigu, it is a kind of property transfer of game, an expression of face theory of local society and a competition for scarce resources in marriage market. High human feeling is accompanied with high price , it is actually a kind of economical reciprocity and mutual assistance system of Hui Zu who are in destitute situation.