| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 台灣文化研究所碩士班 === 101 === The Tapangu settlement is the most ancient settlement in the Tsou Tabangu tribe. It is said
that the noacaciana gens established the settlement by migrating and separating from the
Iskiana tribe. After the old tribe of Iskiana was destroyed, each gen of the Tsou Tapang
community established the “kuba” (men''s meeting house) in the Uyongana terrace and
brought the social organizations and sacred ceremonies of the original Tsou in the old tribe
of Iskiana into the new tribe. Since then, the Tsou Tapang community slowly developed
into the political, cultural and educational center of the Tsou Tapang tribe. During the
colonial period, due to the social development and good geographical conditions, the
Japanese authorities selected the community as the administrative center for governing each
tribe of Tsou, and children’s education institutions and various administrative authorities
were also built in Tapang tribes. In 1946, the WuFeng Township Office was established and
merged the Tefuye and Tapang tribes into Dabang Village; whose tribal population is
mainly Tsou.
This study targets the Dabang settlement and mainly aims to explore the formation and
development of the tribe as well as the reasons for and outcomes of the social and cultural
changes in different regimes from the tribal autonomy period, the period of early contact
with foreigners to the colonial period and today’s cultural renewal period. The study will
also clarify the reasons and routes for the gens migration as the basis for the Dabang tribe
gens to seek their roots.
The social organization of the Tsou Dabang tribe is based on gens, which comprise a
three-tier gens organization based on kin. Different gens form Dabang tribal organizations;
the relationship between gens was regulated by the “peisia” (taboo) in the tribal “sacred
ceremonies”. But the Tsou Dabang tribe encountered different regimes and cultures from
the 16th century; thus, the social structure of the tribe also slowly changed; the traditional
culture mode was also disrupted; the traditional “sacred ceremonies” gradually became
“secularized” because of the influence of social changes. Due to the factors of change, the
current ceremony connotation and instrument greatly differ from the traditional “sacred
ceremonies”. However, why are the two ceremonies (war offerings and millet festival) of
Dabang tribe enlarged year by year? What mood will the ceremony officials who were
baptized as Christians hold when leading the ceremony? In order to explore the reason, the
author studies the “traditional rituals” and “life rituals of the Tsou Tabangu community” to
analyze the phenomenon of the “sacred ceremonies” and sociocultural changes in the
Dabang tribe.
With the topic of the Tsou Tapangu settlement, this thesis detailedly analyzes and records
the process of social and cultural changes and makes its own interpretation based on current
situations and instances, in the hope that the results of the Tapangu settlement research will
become the basis for the future research on the Tapang tribe.
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