A Historical Review of Rural Enterprises in Ethnic Tujia Areas: From an Environmental and Cultural Perspective

A historical review of the rural enterprises shows that the development modes of TVEs in the 1980s and 1990s were unsustainable. TVEs used to focus on income exclusively while sacrificing the needs of rural ethnic residents, because the TVEs in those minority areas did not have sufficient ethnic characteristics. To play a more active part in rural revitalization, TVE development needs ongoing reform and deeper consideration from the perspectives of environment and culture

The Principles in Xiangji Operation: The Theoretical Crystallization of Chinese Economic Anthropology

The Chinese nation is a large family made up of multi-ethnic integration. In the process of adapting to its natural ecosystem and sociocultural background, all ethnic groups have formed their own unique ethnic cultures. In cross-cultural and cross-regional economic activities, the influence of many non-economic factors such as ethnic cultural values cannot be ignored. It is on this premise that the book “The Principles in Xiangji Operation” combines western economic anthropology theory with China's reality through field survey data from Guizhou, and puts forward the theory of xiangji (interphase) management. This way, it has successfully introduced a theoretical system of economic anthropology with Chinese characteristics

Ecological Maintenance: New Concepts and Approaches

This study discusses the difficulties in current ecological maintenance, re-interprets the concept of technology under multicultural context, and explores the diversified development and environmental protection approaches. It is suggested that the current ecological crisis is not a qualitative, but a quantitative problem, which can be solved by human society itself. In order to construct a new concept on ecological maintenance, it requires humans to sort out the traditional ecological knowledge case by case, to inspire the confidence of people of all ethnic groups in their own knowledge, to improve the ecological knowledge and skills of the region, to give full play to the ecological knowledge value in this region, and finally to realize sustainable ecological maintenance

Anthropological Research on the Essence of Rural Revitalization

Cultural consciousness is the essence of rural revitalization, which is a process of transformation from cultural consciousness to cultural self-determination. “Dialogue” is an inevitable choice during rural revitalization among different participants, but “participation” of the main population is the only available path in this regard. Conscious “dialogue” and “participation” of rural population are indispensable for rural revitalization

Cultural Behavior in an Ecological Context: Exploration of Inter-Ethnic Cultural and Ecological Relationship

The locations of ethnic groups in a country are determined by their living spatial systems, in which the unique characteristics of local culture play a key role. It is known that an ethnic culture is formed through a long term multiple evolution. This paper probes the nature of human culture and ecologic connections to explore the relationship between cultural harmony and ecological maintenance. It attempts to find ways to achieve cultural ecological balance in human society. Results suggest that when dealing with ecological crisis, cultural balance mechanism can provide beneficial help. As there is a cultural balance system inside the living spatial systems, by combining the systems with the adjustment mechanism of culture, the international ecological crisis will be effectively handled, and the human ecological environment will be maintained naturally and efficiently