Abstract: Aiming at poverty alleviation and development in ethnic minority areas,there are mainly two interpretation modes:the economic and social structure perspective and the cultural perspective.In the process of poverty alleviation and development,some cultural factors in ethnic areas are often regarded as "poverty culture" and become the object of modernity transformation.However,while the ethnic minority areas and their people recognize the value of modernity,they also respond to or even resist the measures taken for the transformation of modernity,which has caused a dilemma in carrying out poverty alleviation and development policy.From the dual perspectives of modernity and locality,the internal connection between modernity and state power,and the integral operation of state power have become the basic tension between the value of modernity and local culture.Entering the stage of al-round rural revitalization,ethnic minority areas should maintain the dual consciousness of modernity and locality,re-recognize and strengthen national cultural values and cultural identity in rural revitalization,and promote the creative transformation and innovative development of excellent culture,so as to accelerate the rural revitalization in ethnic minority areas.

Key words: rural culture, poverty culture, ethnic minority areas, modernity, locality