近十年国内民间信仰的人类学研究概况——以社区研究方法为例

摘要

Based on the definition and characteristics of folk beliefs summary,community-based research methods is needed.Combing the development history of community concept and the anthropology field methods,the author points out that a community approach have the vast prospects in popular belief anthropological study..The author summarizes three main features in the community research methods of folk belief over the past decade and claims the resesrch of western region is lack of large-scale development.Functionalism has always been an important theoretical paradigm of research about Chinese folk belief.Based on this theory,wiriter matiains folk belief has four basic social functions,and lists the main contents of it,the advantage of the community resrarch method.%本文总结了近十年来民间信仰社区研究方法的三个主要特点,认为西部地区的研究尚待大规模开发。功能主义一直以来是中国民间信仰研究的重要理论范式,笔者基于这一理论梳理了民间信仰所具有的四个基本社会功能,并罗列了民间信仰研究的主要内容,及社区方法所具有的优势。