“通过民俗”:从生活文化到行动意义的摆渡——兼论当代民俗学研究的日常生活转向

“Folklore as a path”from life culture to meaning in action:Also on the academic turn of folklore studies to everyday life

某种意义上说,日常生活转向是民俗学学科在社会转型时期针对自身发展困境的理论自觉。在现代性日益渗透到人们生活的方方面面时,作为关注生活文化的民俗学,需要从传统的以民俗事象为研究对象的藩篱中走出来,将学术目光投向日常生活整体。当代民俗学从对文化事象的结构性解读到以民俗为路径对生活意义的探析,既是其在自身遭遇学科危机时进行的积极探索,又是其对现代生活自觉的学术回应。在研究范式的日常生活转向中,正视"现代性"并与之和解,无疑是当前民俗学学科的自我救赎之途。

In some sense,the academic turn of folklore studies to everyday life is the theoretical consciousness of folklore in the period of social transformation against its own development dilemma.With modernity permeating every aspect of people's life,folklore focusing on the life culture needs to get rid of the traditional barriers of folkloric things as the object of its studies,and devote its academic eyes to the whole everyday life.From the structural interpretation of cultural things to the study of the meaning of life,folklore devotes itself to the positive exploration of its disciplinary crisis and gives its academic response to the consciousness of modern life.In the transformation of its research paradigms towards everyday life,folklore should bravely face“modernity”and have reconciliation with it,which is undoubtedly its feasible disciplinary self-salvation.