新加坡舞狮界的时空局限：论析资本协商扮演的角色 = A study of Lion Dance's existence in Singapore through examining the forms of capital

Abstract

舞狮在新加坡虽有着源远流长的历史，却受限于既定的特定时空里。对此，笔者将采用布尔迪厄的资本理论解释舞狮在新加坡社会里受限于既定时空一直无法越界的原因主要是因为舞狮拥有的文化资本和社会资本相当低，导致舞狮在社会的地位不高，不受到政府或民众的关注和支持。笔者也将深入探究三种资本的转化机制对于舞狮越界的帮助，通过舞狮的文化资本和社会资本协商，让舞狮有望变得更大众化，扩展它的活动空间，提升它的社会地位，让舞狮得以越界。

Lion Dance is a cultural art with a longstanding history in Singapore, yet it is limited to a set of fixed time and space in Singapore’s society. Through the use of Pierre Bourdieu’s theory “The Forms of Capitals”, this research seeks to explain how possessing low cultural and social capital has resulted in the low societal standing of lion dance, resulting in a lack of support and attention from the Singapore government and its people. This is followed by examining how the transposition of the forms of capitals can allow Lion Dance to have its cultural and social capital converted into one another or economic capital, in order to increase the popularity of Lion Dance and elevate its societal standing, eventually giving rise to the breakthrough of Lion Dance’s current perimeters.