钟敬文“民俗文化学”的学科性质及方法论意义

1991年,钟敬文提出了"民俗文化学",这可以看作他在最近20年学术思想发展过程中形成的一个核心性创新概念,具有重要的标志意义."民俗文化学"产生的现实背景,有民俗学自身学科意识需要加强的情况,也有整个研究中国传统文化的学术界尚与民俗学发生割裂的情况,钟敬文在两方面的研究实践,促成了他提出一个新的交叉学科.对于"民俗文化学"不能仅从民俗学单一发展的需要上理解,因为它对民俗文化研究和民族文化整体研究,都具有指导作用.但是,从民俗学的建设来说,"民俗文化学"学科的提出,却包含着文化科学方法论的重要思想,这是不容忽视的一大学术贡献.

On the‘Folklore Culturism' of Prof. Zhong Jingwen

‘Folklore Culturism', put forward by Prof. Zhong Jingwen in 1991, has an important significance. It can be viewed as a creative notion forming in the developmental process of his academic ideas in his last twenty years. The reasons that the ‘Folklore Culturism' comes about are composed of both the need to complement the shortage of disciplinary consciousness in the study area of folklore itself and that to bridge the gap between the study of traditional Chinese culture and that of folklore. It is his research in the two fields that helps Prof. Zhong advance a new interdiscipline. The ‘Folklore Culturism' is instructive not only in the study of folklore itself, but also in that of ‘folklore culturism', and even in the research of ethnical culture. As to the construction of folklore discipline, however, the concept of ‘folklore culturism' has an important significance in the methodology of cultural science.