中国家庭研究的实体主义与形式主义——兼评李锦《家屋与嘉绒藏族社会结构》

Substantialism and Formalism in Chinese Family Studies——A Review of Dwelling House and Social Structure of the Rgyalrong Tibetan People by Li Jin

李锦《家屋与嘉绒藏族社会结构》一书立足于家屋与房名等地方性知识,该书勾勒出区域社会的实体结构,并力求名实合一,在开放性与历史性的双重维度下考察家屋社会的并接、转化过程。这种对家屋实体展开的分析逻辑,代表了民族志对现实的想象力。当下的中国家庭研究,应该以实体主义取向作为先锋与基础,结合形式理性,实现两种分析进路的合流。

Based on the local knowledge such as dwelling house and house name, Dwelling House and Social Structure of the Rgyalrong Tibetan People by Li Jin outlines the entity structure of regional society and strives for the unity of name and reality through examining the connection and transformation process of dwelling house society in the dual dimensions of openness and history. The analysis logic applied to dwelling house entity represents the imagination of ethnography to reality. Nowadays family studies in China should combine the two analytical approaches of substantialism orientation and formalistic rationality with the former as the pioneer and foundation.