【摘要】 本文选译自日本神奈川大学教授佐野贤治的新作《宝从田中来》(宝は田から)第一章以"乡土"为方法。作者重新梳理柳田民俗学的乡土研究方法,指出柳田民俗学作为经世济民之学,通过研究"常民"的乡土生活文化发现连结传统与现代的共通性生活意识。与近年来日本民俗学的相对封闭不同,柳田民俗学较早提出了世界民俗学的构想,提倡国家间的民俗比较。而脱胎于该构想的"世界常民学",立足本地,放眼世界,是匹配地方知识与普遍知识,带领人类通往"幸福"的科学。更多还原

【Abstract】 The article is an excerpt of "Localas a Method",the Chapter I of Treasures from Fields(宝は田から),the newly published work of Sano Kenji,who is the professor working at Kanagawa University in Japan.As a scholarship aiming at benefiting the people,Yanagita’s folklore methodology of Local is re-worked on by the author.He points out the common life consciousness connecting traditional and modern lives can be found through studies of the folk’s local life culture.Unlike the Japanese folklore’s recent situation of relatively sealing up,Yanagita’s folklore had put forward the conception of world folklore quite early and,advocated the comparison of folklores among different countries.The"World Folk Study",derived from the above conception,is the science of leading mankind to"happiness"by matching local and universal knowledge based on local and worldwide conditions.更多还原