论中国民俗学新世纪的学科发展

20世纪中国民俗学经历坎坷 ,为新世纪学科的继续发展既奠定了基础和走向 ,又提供了有益的借鉴。 2 1世纪的民俗学发展将重点着力于七个方面 :建构独立的学科理论体系和独特的品格 ;进行学科基础理论的开放性探讨与拓展 ;区域民俗研究进一步深化 ,民俗学流派日渐形成 ;分支学科与应用民俗学快速发展 ;微观的社区民俗志成为今后民俗志的主流 ,基层民俗学工作者将大有可为 ;民俗学与人类学、社会学的相互渗透仍将持续 ;民俗学学位点建设将稳步发展。

Development of China's Folklore Studies in the New Century

The eventful paths by which China's folklore developed itself in the 20th century not only laid a solid foundation and pointed out the way for the subject to evolve itself in the new century, but also provided many lessons to learn. On the basis of reviews and reflections, it can be assumed that China's folklore studies will focus on the following areas: the building-up of the subject as an independent branch of learning with theories of its own; open exploration and development of the basic theories related to the subject; more efforts on localized folklore studies to form different schools of thoughts; rapid development of branches of the subject and applied folklore studies; greater emphasis on microscopic community-based folklore studies and greater contribution by grassroots folklorists; more interactions or mutual penetrations between folklore, anthropology and sociology; and more universities starting to offer degree-based programs in folklore studies.