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发表于 2003-6-26 21:13:00
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RE:祝贺尹虎彬、巴莫曲布嫫二位民族学者通过学位论文答辩!!!
For my mentor Professor Zhong Jingwen──
Theme: A Field Study of Epic Tradition: Nuosu Epic Hnewo as a Case
Author: Bamo Qubumo.
Abstract
The present dissertation is based on a long-term field study concerning the indigenous oral traditions of the Nuosu, a subgroup of the Yi ethnic group who live in the Great Cold Mountains of southwest China. The study provides an in-depth look at the epic tradition known in Nuosu as “hnewo.”By taking the well-known epic Hnewo as a specific case, the author raises the following questions--questions that she encountered when attempting to mediate interpretive tensions that exist between the Nuosu's own ethnopoetic conception of their verbal art and scholars' conception of 'epic': How do the local people, who are deeply rooted in native traditions, articulate and name the central genres, poetic tenets, and modes of transmission within their local epic traditions of oral performance? How does this terminology inform a phenomenon that we might call epic law in ‘local knowledge’? How do scholars from different academic perspectives think about their own institutional canon in light of the indigenous traditions? What is the place of a native scholar's ground within his/her own tradition and beyond? The case of epic Hnewo is considered in terms of a) the basic story-patterns of epic narrative and emergent flexibility; b) the difference and connection between the rhapsody and the whole epic performance that inform this particular realization of narrative continuity primarily determined by ritualized situation; and c) the situated performance not only demands of a closing responsive and perceptive attention to bearers of epic tradition, but also a prudent field study of folklore in context with new tracking on epic register and traditional referentiality along with folkloristic interpretation to account for narrative rules and epic law that pre-existing in Nuosu's conceptions involved.
The present dissertation consists of a preface, an introduction, and five main chapters with illustrations, in addition to an epilogue and appendices. The appendices include transcriptions of certain parts of the epic hnewo, selected field interviews, relevant field notes and a Yi glossary of terms used in the present dissertation.
Key Words:
Nuosu epic hnewo-epic traditional law-living oral performance-verbal arts- epistemological approach
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