本文通過對雲南省新平彝族傣族自治縣轉馬都村乾旱災害回應方式的人類學田野調查,探討了彝族村民和地方政府對於乾旱災害的解釋方法和應對方式。文章認為,彝族地區的乾旱災害可以追溯到遙遠的古代,乾旱災害一直伴隨著人類至今。彝族地區的乾旱災害回應方式包括了村民的回應方式和地方政府的回應方式,村民的乾旱災害回應方式包括拉水、買水、儲存水、出售牲畜、減少用水量、祭龍、祭祀水神、保護水井和神林等;而地方政府的乾旱災害回應方式包括了政府送水、保護水源、加強基礎設施建設、保護森林、媒體宣傳、各界捐資捐物等。乾旱災害的兩種回應方式說明了抗旱工作是政治、經濟和文化相結合的結果。
Through a detail research on drought of Zhuanmadu village of Xinping Yi-Dai autonomous county, Yunnan province, this paper probes the cultural interpretation and behavior response on drought by local Yi people and government. It believes that drought can be dated back from ancient time, and the methods of response to drought have a long history in the Yi areas. By now, there are two kinds of drought responses: village's way of response and local government's way of response. The village's response includes carrying water by horses or vehicles, buying water with other villagers who have vehicles, storing water, sale animals, reducing use of water, holding religious rituals, protecting water resources and religious forest. The local government's response includes sending water to villagers and schools, protecting water resources, increasing infrastructure construction, protecting forest, media propaganda, and accepting donations from the society. These responses to drought show that drought mitigation is a result of politically, economically and culturally combined in local areas.