“宗教事实必须被看作一个融贯的系统之内各个部分彼此之间的关系,每个部分都只有在与其他部分的关系中才有意义,而这个系统本身只和在与其他作为一套更广泛的关系之组成部分的制度系统的关系中,才会有意义。”①在1965出版的《原始宗教理论》中,埃文斯-普理查德(E.E.Evans-Pritchard,1902~1973,也译为伊凡-普里查)表达了将信仰与社会制度诸要素视为关联体来研究的思路。②16年后(1981),厄内斯 "Religious facts must be seen as the relationship between the various parts of a coherent system, each part is only meaningful in the relationship with the other parts, and the system itself and only in and other as a In the original religion theory published in 1965, Evans-Pritchard (1902 ~ 1973, also translated as Ivan-Pritchard) expressed the idea of ​​considering the various elements of belief and social system as an associated body. ② 16 years later (1981), Ernest