集市,又称定期市场,北方多称为"集",南方称为"场"或"街"。集市不仅是经济学视域下的关注重点,作为社会性、物质性与象征性的综合体,集市还是人类学重要的研究对象。集市铸造了乡土社会的时间与空间秩序,建构了一种稳定的乡村公共生活模式。兹以黔中杨武乡乡市为例,采用田野调查的方法,展现集市如何利用"集期"与"街"建构地方性的时间与空间。
Country Fair, also known as a regular market which is called "set" in North China while , "field" or "street" in South China. As a social, material and symbolic complex, Fair is not only a focus from the economics Perspective, bul also an imporlant research object. Market helps to conslruct a stable pattern of rural public lite by building time and space order in local community. Taking the township of Yangwu in Central Guizhou as an example, adopting the method of fieldwork ,this paper shows how the market uses "set " and "Street" to buid local time and space.