山坝结构与族际共生:历史时期西南边疆民族交往交流交融的文化生态学考察

Mountain-flatland Structure and Interethnic Symbiosis:A Historical Study of the Communication,Interaction and Fusion of the Ethnic Groups in the Southwest Border Areas of China in a Perspective of Cultural Ecology

历史上西南边疆地区不同的经济文化类型和民族分布格局,反映了山坝结构形态下多元民族互嵌共生的社会结构特点。在山坝结构的空间单位中,各民族既发展出适应各自生境的经济文化类型,又通过不同群体的交流互动形成既相互区别又相互联系的社会文化系统。以山坝结构为研究对象,不仅能够较为清晰地呈现“人地关系”下西南边疆各民族交往互动的空间特征,而且还可以从民族共生的整体逻辑来认识西南边疆民族社会历史发展的多样性以及边疆各民族交往交流交融历史演进的区域特性。在认识论层面,相关研究或许能够在传统认知基础上,为当下中华民族共同体形成路径等议题提供一种新的观察视角。

The distribution patterns of different economic and cultural types and ethnic groups in the southwestern border areas of China in history reflect the characteristics of the social structure of multi-ethnic integration and symbiosis under the mountain-flatland structure.In the spatial unit of the mountain-flatland structure,different ethnic groups have developed their economic and cultural types that adapt to their own habitats,and have formed social and cultural systems which are both distinct and interconnected through their communication and interaction.Taking the mountain-flatland structure as the research subject can not only clearly present the spatial characteristics of the communication and interaction of the ethnic groups in the southwestern border areas of China revealing the“human-land relationship”,but also reveal the diversity of the historical development of the ethnic societies in the southwestern border areas of China from the overall logic of the ethnic symbiosis,as well as the regional characteristics of the historical evolution of the communication,interaction and fusion among the ethnic groups in these border areas.At the epistemological level,relevant research may provide a new perspective for the study of the current issues such as the path to the formation of the community of the Chinese nation based on the traditional cognition.