What books do you need to prepare for folklore postgraduate entrance examination?

These books are classics of folklore and anthropology, and some of them are reference books for postgraduate entrance examination and examination. If you are interested, I suggest you read it.

1, The Golden Branch is a scientific work that studies primitive beliefs and witchcraft activities. The title of the book comes from ancient Roman myths and legends. The Chinese version of the book is about 880,000 words. By using the method of historical comparative study, the author systematically sorts out these rich materials related to the primitive beliefs of all nationalities in the world (including soul concepts, nature worship, resurrection of gods, especially witchcraft and taboos), and extracts a set from them.

2. Ancient Society is the first meaningful attempt, which summarizes the actual process of cultural development from the origin of human beings to the recent era. The Chinese version of this book is about1180,000 words. On the one hand, the author discusses in chronological order what happened to human society from its formation to Greek and Roman times; On the one hand, use concepts and principles to explain these things. Engels wrote The Origin of Family, Private Ownership and State on the basis of ancient society.

3. Analysis of Folklore is the representative work of Professor Allen Dundees, a famous American folklorist and anthropologist, which lasted for more than 40 years. Collect 12 articles from different periods, covering the theories and methodologies of modern folklore, folklore and anthropology, the motif and typology of folk stories, and the psychoanalysis of folk cultural forms such as stories, fairy tales, proverbs, flattery, legends and games. The Chinese version of this book is about 250,000 words.

4. Fu Xi Kao is Mr. Wen Yiduo's most representative work on myth research, and also a masterpiece on the fundamental myth of the Chinese nation. This book integrates Chinese and foreign methods and has made outstanding contributions to the study of modern mythology in China, becoming a classic of mythology in China. The Dragon Boat Festival Examination and other seven works are also the representative works of Mr. Wen Yiduo's myth research, representing the achievements of China's myth research at the beginning of last century. The whole book 154000 words.

5. In the order of historical dynasties, The Study of Ancient Chinese Costume, through the images of unearthed and handed down cultural relics, combined with 174 articles, makes an extensive and in-depth discussion on the evolution of ancient Chinese costume system and its relationship with the material life and ideology of the society at that time, reflecting the situation of China national costume from Yin Shang Dynasty to Qing Dynasty for more than 3,000 years. This book has original ideas in explaining and asking questions. The book has 540,000 words.

6. China People's Belief in Birds: Reflections on the Bird-like Cosmology, using the triple cultural research methods of literature, archaeology and field, expounds the origin, present situation and bird-like cosmology of China people. The contents of the book are detailed and interlocking, not only citing a large number of documents, but also interspersed with rich first-hand field materials, such as legends and stories, and as many as 373 beautiful pictures, which make people interested in reading.

7. Should it be a "wind physical examination"? What this book presents to readers is a book that shows the scenery of China. It has involved people's daily necessities, weddings and funerals, social customs and many other aspects in ancient society. It covers a wide range, including China's ancient history of science and technology, social history, customs history, archaeology, ethnology, geography, laws and regulations, social evolution and many other aspects, focusing on the history of material civilization and communicating social culture.

8. The Research on the Moral Education Function of Adult Rites edited by Ping divides adult rites into youth rites in primitive society, adult rites in feudal society and adult rites in modern society from different periods of human historical development. According to this, adult ceremonies can be divided into different types, such as body signs, clothing accessories and symbolic signs, and it is pointed out that the primitive youth ceremony is a ritual activity mainly based on body signs, the patriarchal adult ceremony is an adult ceremony mainly based on clothing accessories, and the modern adult ceremony is an adult ceremony mainly based on symbolic signs. This book also studies the basic structure of adult ceremony and its functions such as personality purification, status inversion and balance, and cultural identity from the perspective of three-dimensional structure of structure, non-structure and anti-structure. The basic framework of this book is to study the religious belief function of primitive youth rituals from the analysis of the structure and function of adult rituals; Slave and adult ceremony in feudal society and its patriarchal education function: adult ceremony in modern society and its ideological, moral and cultural identity function.

9. I don't know much about the book The Evolution of China's Ancient World Outlook after Death.

10, Selected Translation of Art in Etiquette 3 1 Papers published by Professor Wu Hong, a famous art historian since 1985. These papers; Focusing on the basic concept of "etiquette art", this paper discusses some artistic traditions and forms in China's ancient and medieval art, including pottery, jade and bronze ritual vessels from prehistoric times to the third generation, tomb art and Buddhism in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. The emergence and early development of Taoist art. These papers use a lot of archaeological and documentary evidence, which expands the breadth and depth of art history research. Combining the theories and methodology of anthropology and sociology, the author discusses the combination of various visual images such as architecture, sculpture, portraits and utensils, as well as the organic connection with human behavior and thinking. Its analysis object is no longer isolated objects and images, but includes the restoration of visual environment and the investigation of artistic creation motivation, social environment, etiquette function and viewer's reaction. The discussion in the article is often carried out at two levels. In addition to the investigation of specific historical issues, it also reflects on the relevant academic history and research methods. Quite a few papers have discussed the special materiality and visual tradition of China ancient art from the perspective of comparative cultural history, which is of great significance to reflect on the narrative structure of China art history.

1 1, Teacher Dong Xiaoping's "Talking Culture" stands at the forefront of China's folk culture changes, facing new fashions and changes, and talking with history and reality, showing the author's keen observation. The whole book is particularly unique in dealing with the relationship between literature and reality, domestic and foreign folk culture. It breaks the boundary of "one country's folklore", makes theoretical propositions take care of all aspects of history and reality, vividly expresses the artistic expression, economic life, social foundation and festival connotation of culture in easy-to-understand language, and leads people to approach folklore and understand the life around them and its significance.

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