自1996年中国文学人类学研究会成立至今,文学人类学在近20年的时间里发展迅速,不断提出新的学术探索命题并逐渐积累成一种理论体系的创新。"四重证据"是该学科标志性的理论工具,是人类学"田野"与文学"场域"对接的跨学科研究成果。其在神话学领域的应用,产生出文化符号的"N级编码"理论,将西方"神话—原型"批评的应用范围向前大大推进了一步。在对中国文学和文化"大传统"探寻过程中,文学人类学提出了华夏"玉教"理论。从"四重证据"到"N级编码"再到"玉教"理论,中国文学人类学一直努力通过本土神话的溯源研究为中国文化找回失落已久的信仰之根。
The discipline of Chinese literary anthropology has developed so fast that it has brought up many new concepts and new topics in the nearly 20 years since the society of Chinese literary anthropology was set up in 1996. The label theoretical methodology of this subject is its quadruple evidence,which is docked by anthropology and literature through the "field ". N-level coding is another research tool created by using quadruple evidence in mythology,which advances the theory of archetype criticism. In the progress of the study of Chinese literary "great tradition",the researchers put forward the topic of Chinese "jade worship". Through these concepts and topics,it can be seen that the research fellows of Chinese literary anthropology are doing their best for Chinese literature,in order to find the root of Chinese culture which had been lost for so long.