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Anthropological Introspection on Returning the Cultural Articles to the Original Residents’ Place

LUO Yi-fei   

  1. Academy of Arts, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou 310018, China
  • Online:2015-09-10 Published:2018-12-19

Abstract: Cultural articles are of great importance in cohering national spirit and safeguarding national cultural dignity. As for understanding the social meaning of the original residents’ cultural articles, it can be realized by explaining the social local context. These articles are in a belief system that differs from the special groups in western society, inside which there is an inherent spirit value system. The knowledge meaning these articles have will change and even lose, if we move them away to a context “far from the right circumstance”. Are the artifacts of the non-western original residents stuff or art? Culture or “non-culture”? Should western society return the non-western articles to their original place? These related issues became classic in anthropological field. Lots of anthropologists made the original residents’ artifacts in a context of encounter, entanglement and openness, and make dialogue and introspection toward this.

Key words: cultural article, original place of residence, original residents, return

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  • C958
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