19世纪末20世纪初期,西方学者到云南旅行、游历、进行田野调查,收集关于云南民族民风、气候物产、人文地理、风俗习惯等的材料,留下了许多珍贵的资料。这一时期,西方人类学家到西南边疆地区开展田野调查,研究边疆民族历史文化。可以说,他们的研究在一定意义上揭开了对云南历史文化开展人类学研究的序幕。白族历史文化也逐渐进入西方人类学家的视野,受到西方人类学家的关注和重视。此后,随着抗日战争的爆发,内地高等院 In the late 19th century and the early 20th century, Western scholars traveled to Yunnan, traveled and conducted field surveys to collect materials about Yunnan folk customs, climate properties, human geography, customs and habits, leaving many precious materials. During this period, western anthropologists carried out field investigations in the border areas of southwest China and studied the history and culture of the frontier ethnic groups. It can be said that their research opened the prelude to carrying out anthropological research on the history and culture of Yunnan in a certain sense. The history and culture of the Bai people also gradually entered the horizons of Western anthropologists, which were paid attention and attention by western anthropologists. Since then, with the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the mainland higher court