英文摘要 |
Basing on the materials from a traditional regional novel 'P'ing-Min-Shih-P'a- Tung' (平閩十八洞), which is a Ming Dynasty written but published in Ching Dynasty novel concerning the battles between the natives in the southern Fukien province and the migrants of Han people from the North, the present paper tries to identify the tribal characters and the affinity of the native group, and more importantly to delineate the human-animal relationship or the totemic phenomena of the people revealed in the text. According to various evidences, the present author inclines to say that the native people described in the text was a southern minority group close related to the present day 'she nationality' (畲族).The human-animal relations described in the novel are rather abundant and interesting. The author uses these rich materials as an example to delineate and disentangle the differences and the interrelations of two kinds of totemism often discussed in anthropological works: the symbolic totemism of metaphoric classification and the religious totemism of classical sense. |