回族现象观察的"点"与"面"——从三本回族调查资料的研究取向谈起

The "Micro-aspect" and "Macro-aspect" in the Phenomena of Observation in the Contemporary Hui Nationality:-On the Issues about the Research Approaches of Three Latest Works of Ethnographic Studies

本文主旨系探讨当代回族研究在方法与方法论的讨论里,有关民族志建构过程中的一个基本议题:即在观察当代回族现象时,以单独或若干个"点"的田野研究,如何呈现出"面"的意义与重要性。本文主要透过近年来三本新出版的调查资料为探讨重点,并尝试以"边缘性回族"的概念,来提供出"点"与"面"之间另一种"线"的分析与观察角度。

The main purpose of this article is to analyze a basic issue of research method and methodology of constructing the ethnographic aspects in contemporary Hui studies: How to use some results of the 'points' (micro-aspects) of field studies to concentrate the actual meaning and importance in the broader 'plane' (macro-aspects) phenomena. Besides of the analysis of three latest works of ethnographic studies in Hui Nationality, the author also try to provide the idea of 'Marginal Hui' to make a median link between the 'points' and 'plane' dimensions. 