Abstract

Denis Regnier has written an ethnography that combines a cognitive approach and ethnography among villagers in southern Betsileo in Madagascar. The major aim of his study was to investigate the treatment and conditions for slave descendants by the majority of the people within villages and hamlets in southern Betsileo. These slave descendants are perceived and classified as ‘unclean’ people by the free descent ‘clean’ peoples. He provides extensive ethnographic and historical details on the socioeconomic, social, political, and religious aspects regarding the prohibitions of marriages between clean and unclean peoples. Regnier uses cognitive field experiments to assess whether the unclean peoples are essentialized by the clean people.

摘要

丹尼斯·雷格尼尔（Denis Regnier）撰写了一份人种志，其中结合了马达加斯加南部Betsileo村民的认知方法和人种志。他的研究的主要目的是调查南部Betsileo村庄和小村庄中大多数人对奴隶后裔的待遇和条件。这些血统的奴隶后裔被自由后裔的“清洁”人民视为“不清洁”人民。他提供了关于社会经济，社会，政治和宗教方面的详尽的人种志和历史细节，其中涉及禁止干净和不干净的民族之间的婚姻。Regnier使用认知领域实验来评估不干净的人是否被干净的人所必需。