我国少数民族传统体育项目使用器具的象征人类学阐释

运用象征人类学的有关理论和视角,针对民族传统体育项目使用器具这一具体的、特定的文化现象展开研究。研究结果表明:我国少数民族传统体育项目使用器具有肢体功能的延伸与象征意义的衍化,生殖崇拜与生命阈限象征,图腾崇拜与吉祥人生寓意象征,祖先崇拜与社群认同功能象征,神灵崇拜与世俗权力神圣化象征等具体象征形式。象征文化是中国民族传统体育精神的传承纽带,是增强民族传统体育的群体凝聚力,强化民族传统体育的教化功能,促进民族传统体育形式的多样化,表达美好生活向往的价值趋同性的具体呈现。

Symbolic Anthropology Interpretation of the Ethnic Traditional Sports Apparatus in China

Using theory and perspective of symbolic anthropology,the paper researched the concrete and specific culture phenomenon of the ethnic traditional sports apparatus.The result showed that the ethnic traditional sports apparatus had limb function extension and symbolic meaning derivation,reproduction worship and life threshold symbol,totem worship and auspicious life symbol,ancestor worship and community recognition function symbol,divinity worship and secular power sanctification symbol and so on.Symbolic culture is the inheritance tie of the Chinese ethnic traditional sports spirit,and is the specific show of enhancing the group cohesiveness of ethnic traditional sports,strengthening correctional function of ethnic traditional sports,promoting diversification of ethnic traditional sports form,expressing value convergence to a better life.