我作为一名关注符号的民族学人类学工作者,已经习惯于从事物与象征意义关联的角度研究问题。在我看来,“山地民族与文化”这个栏目的开办本身就具有特殊的象征意义。在一定程度上可以说,它标志着中国的民族学人类学在研究视域上又有了新的拓展和进步:对山地民族与文化的研究正在由随机转向自觉,从单兵作战走向团队集体攻关,从零散作业开始走向专业系统化,表明我们正在走向中国山地民族学的新天地。就词义而言,“山地民族与文化”这一栏目的 As a ethnographic anthropological worker who is concerned with symbols, I have become accustomed to studying problems from the perspective of the connection between things and symbolic meaning. In my opinion, the establishment of the column “Mountain Nation and Culture” itself has a special symbolic meaning. To a certain extent, it can be said that it marks the further expansion and improvement of ethnological anthropology in China from a research perspective: research on mountain peoples and cultures is shifting from stochastic to conscious, from solo combat to team collective Research, from scattered homework began to professional systematization, indicating that we are moving toward a new world of Chinese mountain ethnology. As far as the meaning of the word is concerned, the section “Mountain Nation and Culture”