从灵堂到展台孝歌的文化资本化与族体建构-CUHK.PDF

From Mourning Hall to Ethnic Stage: The Capitalization of “Filial Piety Songs” Culture and Nationality Construction Wanglu Anthropology Department,Sun Yet-sen University Abstract:As a folk custom in the area of Wuling Mountain, the connotation of “singing filial piety songs” ritual changed during the different periods continuously. Based on the detailed description, the author attempts to explain that the mourning hall where the ritual takes place is actually a field of struggling for higher cultural status. But when the inheritance of ritual is threatened by the influence of social structure vicissitude, “ethnic culture” which symbolized the traditional culture of Tujia nationality is constructed, instead of the original connotation. Therefore, a custom that happened in mourning hall becomes a unique ethnic cultural show played by people who “realized” they belong to “Tujia” nationality. During this process, the compulsive power of construction from the nation and the strategic decisions of individual are the significant power of the vicissitude. To sum up the author aims to indicate how a traditional ritual continued its life throug