一、大小传统与二元分析框架大传统与小传统是美国人类学者雷德菲尔德在其著作《农民社会与文化》中所提出的一对概念,他以这一二元分析的研究框架来说明复杂社会中所存在的两个不同层次的文化传统,所谓大传统主要是指以城市为中心的、由社会上少数上层人士、知识分子所代表的文化,而小传统则是指存在于农村社会中,以农民为代表的文化,是一种具有地方社区和地域性特色的文化传统。雷德菲尔德注重大小传统两者之间的差异性,将二者置于对立的地位上,认为大传统相较于小传统具有优势,随着社会的发展变化,小传统必将逐渐被大传统所吞食和同化。在民间法的研究中,我们是在引申的意义上使用了这一对 First, the size of the traditional and dual analytical framework Large traditions and small traditions is the American anthropologist Redfield in his book “Peasant Society and Culture” proposed in the concept of a dual analysis of his research framework to illustrate In the complex society, there are two different levels of cultural traditions. The so-called grand tradition mainly refers to the city-centered culture represented by the few elites and intellectuals in the society, while the small tradition refers to the existence of the traditional culture in rural society Among them, the culture represented by peasants is a kind of cultural tradition with local communities and regional characteristics. Redfield pays attention to the difference between the traditional and the large one, puts the two in the opposite position, holds that the grand tradition has the advantage compared to the minor tradition, and as the society develops, the minor tradition will gradually be gradually transformed into the grand tradition Swallowed and assimilated. In the study of folk law, we used the pair in the extended sense