迁徙与交融--廿八都历史文化的人类学观察

廿八都镇是经浙江省人民政府批准的第一批省级历史文化名镇(历史文化保护区),位于浙江省最西南端的浙闽赣三省交界处,地扼浙江西部通往福建的交通咽喉,由于历史上一直是兵家必争的军事要地和商贸重镇,历代官兵滞留和商贾聚集构成了廿八都人口增长的主流.外来人口的大规模迁移形成了廿八都独特的聚落文化.从人口迁徙这一普遍的社会文化现象入手,运用文化人类学的理论与方法,着重观察研究移民迁徙和文化的交流与融合,观察和研究人口迁徙与文化交融形成新的聚落文化类型的基本历程,从而探索和揭示地域文化类型形成的基本规律.

Migration and Harmony--An anthropological research essay on NianBaDu Town's history and culture

The NianBaDu Town is one of the famous historical and cultural towns named by Zhejiang Provincial Govcrnment for the first batch. It lies in the most southwest of the province and at the juncture of three provinces which are Zhejiang, Fujian and Jiangxi. The site of town is also a key link for transportation from the western Zhejiang to Fujian Province. Meanwhile, the town had been acting as a very important role for military affairs and trade down the ages. Officials and soldiers settled down and merchants gathered there resulted in its increased population. The large quantity of migration formed its unique conglomerate culture. Taking the general social culture of such migration as the point of departure, the essay emphatically studied from the view of cultural anthropological theory on such migration and harmony of the culture, and its primary course to further form a new type of conglomerate culture. Thereby the essay tried to explore and reveal such a regular pattern of regional culture.