边界、互嵌与交融——清水江中游“河边”与“高坡”的族群关系与共同体意识

Boundary,Inter-Embebbed and Articulation——The Ethnic Relationship and Community Consciousness of"Riverside"and"Hill"in the Middle Reach of the Qingshuijiang River

在现代主权国家,边界问题成为一个无法回避的现象和课题,一方面,边界在区分“我群”与“他群”“我族”与“他族”的差异界限中具有排斥、固化和粗暴切割的刚性特点,但另一方面边界又存在流动、开放和可跨越的柔性机制,具有连接的能供性(affordance)。事实上,这种软性机制隐含允许差异并相互介入的互动架构——“互嵌”式社会关系和共生格局的形成,该形态在贵州清水江中游多民族聚居区有着特殊的呈现;其间以“河边”“高坡”为指称的族群关系超越以民族身份为主的边界区隔,构成既有地方特性又相互嵌入的社会关系,从而在一种区域共生、社会互嵌和共性本真的交融体中,推动形成超越类别、以人为本的共同体结构。显然,这是中华民族共同体得以长久赓续的潜在本质,也是积极构建人类命运共同体的必由之路。

In the modern sovereign state,the problem of borders becomes an inescapable phenomenon and issue that makes the difference between"I"and"Other"have characteristics of exclusion,rigidity and coarseness,but also,as Barth pointed out,borders are also fluid,open and flexible,including the affordance of a connecting mechanism.In fact,the soft mechanism implies an interactive structure that allows differences to exist and intervene with each other to form inter-embedding and symbiosis,which has a special appearance in the multi-ethnic relations in the Middle Reach of the Qingshuijiang River,Guizhou.The zonal boundaries of riverbank and hill transcend the ethnic minority identity and form a social relationship structure with both independent and interdependent,so as to form a people-oriented community consciousness in a mixture of regional symbiosis,social interdependence and general authenticity.Obviously,this is the underlying essence of the enduring success of the Chinese national community and the essential way to build a human community with a shared future.