20世纪以来,中外学者以史学方法,或者以史学与民族学、考古学、语言学等多学科相结合的方法,对纳西族的社会历史进行了广泛的研究,并取得了丰硕的成果。20世纪初,一些西方学者开始注意并研究纳西族历史文化,如法国人巴克(J·Bacot,1877—1967)曾分别于1907年和1909年两次前往纳西族地区进行了实地考察,于1913年发表了西方第一本介绍纳西东巴经和象形文字以及纳西社会历史的著作《麽些研究》。又如法兰西科学院院士,著名的东方学家沙畹曾写有长达78页的《有关丽江的历史、地理文献研究》。几乎同时,国内老 Since the 20th century, Chinese and foreign scholars have made extensive research on the social history of Naxi people with the method of history or the combination of history, ethnology, archeology and linguistics, and have achieved fruitful results. At the beginning of the 20th century, some western scholars began to pay attention to and study the history and culture of the Naxi people. For example, the Frenchman Bacot (1877-1967) conducted two field trips to the Naxi areas in 1907 and 1909, respectively. In 1913 The first published in the West in the history of Naxi Dongba and hieroglyphics and social history of Naxi “some research.” Another example is the French Academy of Sciences, the famous Orientalist Shah wrote a long 78 pages of “history and geography literature on Lijiang.” Almost at the same time, domestic old