理俗人一汉人村落“彩礼”和“嫁妆”的深描-人类学专业论文.docxVIP

AB AB STRACT Brideprice and Dowry have been analyzed in anthropological studies in terms of meaning，function and many other aspects．The main points concerned about the two involve in the theory of marriage payment， marriage endowment and SO on，which relevant researchers all consider as‘‘interpretation or discussion of marriage prestation’．However,we may easily find out that their functional analysis in a western style are based on some sort of Utilitarianism and therefore not a interpretation of the meaning of habitual conducts．By means of Geertz’S ideal type of “local knowledgeand the concept of interpretation，this paper,to start with，would describe the local scene of‘son矿’———phenomena involving human and matter and also a process in itself,which has some connection with anthropological Brideprice and Dowry；then clarify the relation between Chinese厅and total prestation．Meantime，we intend to make a thick description of the concepts of Brideprice and Dowry,pointing out that it is both necessary and reasonable to examine them in the context of totalprestation． The ethnographic description is mainly based on the information， thoughts and feelings from the preliminary field research，conventionally 3 choosing choosing a Han village，S，as the unit of investigation．Direct observation and semi．structural interview are the methods used．Regardless of whether there are local expressions in native point of view about ”bridepriceand¨dowry”，if there is anything new in this paper it would be that the traditionally mechanical flow of girls is reviewed in a coherent process——‘台Dng’．Besides a brief definition of issues and methods in chapter I，the paper can be divided into the following parts： Chapter II is concerned with the local scene of‘台Dng’which is relavant to Brideprice and Dowry．The native point of view of shi is of great significance to song．Song involves no concept of property right，and the cash and various commodities related to Brideprice and Dowry are mostly preparation