日本民俗学的vernacular研究

Vernacular Studies in Japanese Folklore

将vernacular这一概念导入民俗学研究是日本民俗学界的最新尝试,以示与传统民俗学研究的区别。vernacular一词近年在西方的人文社科领域被广泛运用,内涵得以拓展,已成为当代文化研究的重要术语。日本民俗学对vernacular概念的援引和阐发,与其日常生活研究、公共民俗学研究、对抗霸权的民俗学研究等研究趋向密切相关,旨在拓展当下日本民俗学的研究对象,并凝练出作为方法的vernacular。但与此同时,却也存在对vernacular中隐含的权力问题的忽略、与既有概念之间的调和等问题,需要我们更加深入且自反地加以探讨。我们还需要重返中国民俗学的原点,重审白话文(vernacular)运动与中国民俗学生成的关联,构建属于中国民俗学的vernacular论。

The introduction of the concept “vernacular” into folklore studies is the latest attempt by Japanese folklorists to distinguish this new paradigm from traditional folklore. In recent years, the term “vernacular” has been widely used in the field of humanities and social sciences in the West and has become an important jargon in contemporary cultural studies with its connotation expanded. The invocation and elaboration of the concept of vernacular in Japanese folklore is closely related to the research trends such as daily life studies, public folklore studies and counter-hegemony folklore studies, aiming to find more objects for Japanese folklore studies and introduce vernacular as a method. At the same time, however, there are problems of ignoring the power issues implicit in vernacular and contradicting with established concepts, which calls for deeper and more reflexive exploration. Moreover, we need to return to the origin of Chinese folklore and review the connection between the Vernacular Movement and the birth of Chinese folklore, to construct a vernacular theory for Chinese folklore.