祖先留下的规矩

本片由导演XX主演，于未知中国大陆上映！

本片获得第十六届世界人类学民族学大会银奖。 这是一部关于四川省凉山彝族地区习惯法研究的人类学影片。本片讲述了对一起"死给"案的调节。"死给"是彝族特有的词汇，意即以死相抗。"死给"是由民间纠纷所引发的，并会导致家族间的严重冲突。此类案件通常要由德古（彝族民间的知识分子）运用习惯法进行调解。 2007年冬季，凉山州古里区以得村彝族姑娘海来尔果经人介绍到广东打工了，其哥哥海来尔哲知道后找到打工介绍者吉克达依要求吉克达依将尔果找回家，几次交涉未果后，海来尔哲服下农药"死给"。矛盾发展下去将愈加激化，于是不得不由德古出面进行调节······ 本片记录了对这起"死给"案调解的过程，从中可以看到彝族传统习惯法在民间的运作，如德古如何运用习惯法处理民间纠纷，以及纠纷双方如何在诉求方面展开的激烈博弈。本片是从法人类学的视角来探讨"死给"现象的，揭示了国家法与习惯法在现代化过程中的互动。 The Rules from Ancestors，94min, by Pang Tao (China). This is an anthropological film about the customary law of the Yi people in Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province. The film tells about the folk mediation for the case of "death strike". The term of "death strike" is peculiar to the Yi people. It means to commit suicide as a protest, which results from folk dispute and will cause a serious conflict between different clans. Usually, such cases need to be mediated in terms of the customary law, with the degu, the folk intellectuals of the Yi, as the mediators. The film records the process of mediation for a case of "death strike" in a Yi village. We can see in it the operation of the traditional customary law among the Yi folks, for examples, how the degu deals with the folk disputes with the customary law, and how the conflicting parties argue with each other in their appeals. The film approaches the "death strike" in the way of legal anthropology, and reveals the interaction between the state law and the customary law in the process of modernization.