格里奥与埃博拉——西非地区埃博拉疫情科学传播的地域化与后殖民化

Griot and Ebola: Regionalization and Postcolonization of Ebola Epidemic Science Communication in West Africa

格里奥作为西非地区乡村部落中的传统史诗传唱者、行吟歌者,在2014—2016年西非埃博拉疫情的科学传播中发挥了重要作用。借由格里奥所建构出的西非地区埃博拉应急科学传播体系有效平衡了当地的传统部落文化、宗教信仰与西方现代科学之间的矛盾,在有效维护自身的部落文化、音乐传统、信仰体系与社群地方知识的基础上,达到了科学传播的实际功效,凸显出在原被殖民地区建立地域化与后殖民主义化的应急科学传播体系的可能性,从而为我们思考如何在特殊文化地区建立长期有效且文化和谐的新冠疫情科学传播体系提供了可资借鉴的经验。

As traditional epic singers and chanters in the rural tribes of West Africa,Griots played an important role in the responding to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa from 2014 to 2016.The Ebola science communication system in West Africa constructed by Griot effectively balanced the contradictions between the local traditional tribal culture,religious beliefs and modern Western science.On the basis of effectively maintaining its own tribal culture,music tradition,belief system,and community local knowledge,it has achieved the actual effect of science communication,highlighting the possibility of establishment of a regionalization and postcolonization science communication system in a former colonial area.This study may provide us with experience that can be used for reference in thinking about how to establish a long-term effective and culturally harmonious science communication system of the Covid-19 epidemic in special cultural areas.