彝族阿细人婚姻形式演变探析——以亲属称谓为视角

Probing into the Evolution of the Marriage Forms of Axi Yi People——Taking Kinship Terms as an Example

通过对独特的阿细人亲属称谓的演绎和推理,对其传统文化的研究及田野考察,发现阿细人先民婚姻形式有血婚制的痕迹。在婚姻形式演变过程中,更高层次的婚姻形式取代了低层次的婚姻形式,但这种演变是在后者的基础上发展而来,因此与其相适应的亲属称谓未发生颠覆性的变化。婚姻制度随着时间的推移发生了变化,但亲属称谓制度却以相对凝固的形式存留了下来,两者间的不平衡性发展导致后者在现代社会中出现混乱和混用的现象。

The paper,by deducing and reasoning the unique kinship terminology of Axi group,by dig⁃ging up Axi group traditional culture and conducting fieldwork in Axi populated area,finds that the marriage forms of Axi people have traces of consanguineous marriage system.In the process of the evolution of marriage forms,higher-level marriage forms replace lower-level,but the evolution developed on the basis of the latter,so there is no subversive change in the corresponding kinship terms.The institution of marriage has changed with the passage of time while kinship terms system leaves behind in in a relatively solid and hidden form.The unbalanced development between the institution of marriage and kinship terms system leads to the confusion and mixed use of the latter in modern society.