文化相对主义视角下彝族丧葬文化审视

A Survey of the Funeral Culture of Ethnic Yi Group from the Perspective of Cultural Relativism

彝族地区现存的丧葬活动具有丰富的内容和形式,但经济全球化和城市现代化进程的加快,对其丧葬文化造成了巨大的冲击,民族地区群众感到了前所未有的传统与现代的对抗,在思想上也出现了迷惘与焦虑,如何让少数民族祭祀文化朝向更理性的状态发展,这一问题引人深思。文化相对论是19世纪末20世纪初的美国历史特殊论。以文化相对主义视角,探讨彝族丧葬活动的发展路径,主张以理性的目光看待彝族丧葬文化,增强文化自信,并对其建立理性的评价标准。

The existing funeral activities in the Yi area are rich in content and form,but the acceleration of economic globalization and urban modernization has had a tremendous impact on its funeral culture.The masses in the ethnic areas have felt an unprecedented confrontation between tradition and modernity.There has also been confusion and anxiety.How to help ethnic groups develop more reasonable funeral cultures is a thought-provoking issue.Cultural relativism is a special theory of American history developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.This paper explores the developing course of the funeral activities of Yi people from the perspective of cultural relativism,and advocates a rational view of the funeral culture of Yi people,so that we can enhance our cultural self-confidence and develop reasonable evaluation criteria for it.