一、中国文化的大传统与小传统问题美国人类学家罗伯特·雷德菲尔德(Robert Redfield)在1956年出版的《农民社会与文化》中提出了一种所谓大传统与小传统的二元认知框架,以辨析人类社会中文化传统的复杂构成状况。这一认知框架很快为学界所接受,并被应用于不同的学术领域。晚近的一些西方学者,又提出了精英文化和俗众文化这一对新概念,来取代大小传统的文化研究方法。台湾和海外的一些学者,则应用中国传统文化中 I. The Great Tradition and Tradition of Chinese Culture The American anthropologist Robert Redfield put forward a so-called big tradition and a small tradition in the “Peasant Society and Culture” published in 1956 To know the complex constitution of the cultural traditions in human society. This cognitive framework was soon accepted by the academic community and applied to different academic fields. Some recent Western scholars have proposed a new concept of elite culture and popular culture to replace the traditional cultural research methods. Some scholars in Taiwan and overseas apply Chinese traditional culture