二战以后,世界上许多国家从反法西斯、反殖民统治的斗争中赢得了民族独立。继而,西方国家加快了现代化的进程。在这一背景下,西方民俗学者的工作,一面是清理前辈的殖民思想史;一面是摆脱措手不及地应付现代化的心态,从理论走上了认同现代转型文化的新途径。从60至90年代,西方民俗学获得了长足的发展。民俗学者回顾这段学术历程,有益于今后学科的建设。本文拟分以下四个问题对此进行讨论。 Since World War II, many countries in the world have won national independence from the anti-fascist and anti-colonial struggles. In turn, Western countries accelerated the process of modernization. Against this background, the work of Western folklorists, on the one hand, is to clean up the history of the older generation’s colonial ideology; on the other hand, it is to get rid of the unpreparedness to deal with the mentality of modernization and to embark on a new approach of recognizing the modern transformational culture from theory. From the 60s to the 90s, western folklore gained considerable development. Folklorist review of this academic history, is conducive to the construction of the future disciplines. This article will be divided into the following four questions to discuss this.