民族学是研究民族及其文化的学科,从产生至今已走过了150多个风雨历程。放眼世界,民族学已具备了一个成熟学科理论与方法论体系,并且日益形成了一些具有特色的分支学科。中国民族学者身负重担,一方面要构建民族学的本土理论,另一方面要紧跟时代潮流,了解当代其他学者的研究理论,把握学科的最新动向。 Ethnology is a discipline that studies the nation and its culture. It has gone through more than 150 ups and downs since its birth. Looking around the world, ethnology already possesses a mature discipline theory and methodology, and has increasingly formed a number of distinctive branch disciplines. On the one hand, Chinese ethnic scholars have to shoulder the burden of constructing local theory of ethnology; on the other hand, they should keep abreast of the trend of the times, understand the research theories of other contemporary scholars and grasp the latest trends of the discipline.