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NTU-EFEO Talk 台大人類學系與法國遠東學院台北中心合辦演講
2026.11.13 上午10:30-12:00
人文大樓，B106教室，歡迎大家一起來～我們有機會能藉由Josiane Cauquelin 老師的演講，一起回到1990年代初期的南王部落，遙想那令人懷念的，卑南族巫師的吟唱與歌聲。
Date: November 13, 2026, 10:30 am-12:00am
Place: B106, Deparment of Anthropology, Humanities Building, National Taiwan University
From Analysis to Material Evidence:
The Reshaping of Puyuma Society at the Turn of the 20th Century
by Dr. Josiane Cauquelin
Honorary Researcher, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
法國國家科學研究院榮譽研究員
Abstract:
In 1983, all the shamans in Nanwang, Taitung, except one, claimed that Samguan, an effeminate man, was the first shaman and that his origins were lost in the past. Only Abukul, the eldest shaman, disagreed, asserting that she used to bounce on his knees when she was a little girl in the early 20th century. But how could a man with a Chinese name be the first shaman? However, when I heard the final song of the shamans' 'journey,' another character emerged: Udekaw, a woman. One shaman explained to me that she was an ancient shaman lost in the mists of time. Two different versions of history. I then decided to study the period of early Japanese colonization to understand its impact on Puyuma society.
The Japanese administration transformed the entire society, banning religious practices, hunting, and headhunting rituals. Deprived of their hunting activities, the men gradually began to take part in the field work, which until then had been practiced by the women. According to Mabuchi Tōichi 馬淵東一 the Puyuma became rice-growers at the end of the 19th century, whereas Suenari Michio 末成道男 speaks of the beginning of the 20th century. Mac Govern accuses the Japanese of forcing this upon all mountain-dwellers. Japanese colonization caused profound upheavals to not only the Puyuma's social organization and its division of labor by gender, but also to their religious and symbolic worlds attached to their subsistence model.
Decades later, my ethnographic work and hypotheses were validated when, on the one hand, I managed to find Samguan’s civil status records and, on the other hand, listen to a recording of a 98-year-old woman confirming that the Puyuma did not cultivate rice.
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