社区仪式,作为人类思维和行为方式的本质体现,一直处于文化人类学关注的中心地位。但是,就连他们自身也承认,也许缘于结构功能主义的学术传统的影响,“在处理社会变迁问题时,传统人类学的功能主义解释显得软弱无力;而单纯的功能主义立场亦无法解释半个世纪以来作为仪式活动背景的中国社会的剧变过程”,因此,人类学认为,“历史与变迁维度(悠久而丰富的历史文献与尚可获得的口述历史资 Community rituals, as the essence of human thinking and behavior, have always been at the center of attention in cultural anthropology. But even they themselves admit that perhaps due to the academic tradition of structural functionalism, “the functionalist interpretation of traditional anthropology appears to be weak when it comes to dealing with social change; nor does the purely functionalist position explain half Therefore, anthropology believes that ”the dimension of history and change (the long and rich historical documents and the oral history available to them