A Study on the Tapangu Settlement Development andSociocultural Change of the Taiwan Aboriginal Tsou

• Main Authors: Xin-sheng Zhuang, 莊新生
• Other Authors: Chi-Chang Lai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ud27m6

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.