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The main concept of this thesis is Cultural landscape and lifeway(Genve de vie)of the Man-Land tradition. By researching the material, institutional and spiritual life of the Chi pei shua villagers, the purpose of this thesis is to find out the result of the cultural contact and changes, afterwards construct its regional character. This thesis describes the historical background of the Chi pei shua village in the beginning. Chi pei shua village is located by the枕頭Mt. and midstream of龜重溪. Villagers’ ancestor was one tribe of the plain aborigines--Siraya, and they came from Chiali(佳里) during the Chien’lung period for protecting the aborigines. Because of its special location and complex resident composition, it is affected by Han-Chinese culture later than other areas. There were three population characteristics during the Japanese-ruled period: (1) plain aborigines population were more than Han-Chinese; (2)most of the Han-Chinese were came from Fujian; (3) the most first-name of villagers was 段. However, uxorilocal marriage was very popular in the early era. Kindred type of this village could not be determined by the first-name like other Han-Chinese villages. By this historical background, first we discuss these villagers’ material lifeway. We choose domestic architectures, their external arrangement and forms, and their inner allocation of space as indicators. Pingpu zu care about the practicability of the house, and they built up their architecture on platforn. Elder brothers’ precedence was not very important in allocating the space in the house. On the other hand, the external arrangement of Han-Chinese domestic architecture reflects the significance of the rice cultivation ecological system. Besides practicability, they put more emphasises on the symmetry of house. The allocation of space in the house reflects the social principle that the older brothers take precedence over younger brothers. Now the forms of house in Chi pei shua are various and seem sinicized. But through 6 cases, we find that villagers’ basis to allocate the inner space is not the common social principle but its convenience. On the aspect of social relation, we choose marriage type, family structure, the role of family members and the organization of tribe and lineage as indicators. Pingpu zu practiced delayed-transfer-uxorilocal marriage and mandatory abortion, so the brotherhood was more important than the parenthood. Female was the leader in family but not in the tribe. Married Han-Chinese male constructs his own family, in which husband’s status is higher than wife’s. Male is also the leader in lineage organization. Chi pei shua has changed to patrilineal society during Japanese-ruled period, but it still has some matrilineal thoughts such as wife has the same status as husband, female’s position is equal to male’s, people who have different first-name are 「共內面仔」, and female’s names are listed on the phylon, etc.. Having both Pingpu and Han-Chinese thoughts and practicing these thoughts on everyday life are the peculiarities of social relation in Chi pei shua. In spiritual life, we observe the spatial specialty of villagers’ domestic and communal worship. By reading the old documents, we notice that Siraya and Han-Chinese traditional religion are very different. There are 大公界and 東河宮in Chi pei shua nowadays. In religion ritual, villagers use lunar calendar but still put Ali Mu(阿立母)in a higher position. Two kinds of religions display in villagers’ daily life, so this thesis use the domestic worship in 大廳 and annual ceremony in 2001 to reveal the spatiality.「佛祖、公媽牌」 and 「Ali mu、An tsu(案祖)」all appear on the 紅隔桌in大廳. 「佛祖遊庄」and 「拜豬」are both proceeding in annual ceremony in 2001. Although these two religions(Ali mu and 佛祖、清水祖師)are different, they can’t be separated. Jointing the Siraya and Han-Chinese religion but different from them is the spatial specialty of Chi pei shua. As mentioned above, we conclude that the complex resident composition and special historical background affect the material, institutional and spiritual life of the Chi pei shua villagers. After observing villagers’ lifeway, we find that the two kinds of culture(Pingpu and Han-Chinese)are always affecting each other, and that is just the regional character of Chi pei shua.
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