| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 民族學系 === 106 === This thesis studies the ethnicity border of Hla’alua in the present age. Hla’alua is a newly recognized 15th aboriginal peoples in Taiwan in 2014, but Hla’alua people have mixed with Bunun people for a long time. After intermarrying and turning language, the ethnicity border of Hla’alua became blurred, and the only criterion left today is their clan system. This thesis makes use of the data acquiring from interviewing Hla’alua people and the household registration of Japanese ruled period to complete the family tree of each clans in Hla’alua, and using them to discuss the cognition and constitution of the ethnicity border from Hla’alua people in present.
Hla’alua people do not have the tradition to pass down the knowledge of family tree, and the average memory to their clans and ancestors is vague. The research reveals that Hla’alua people’s acknowledgements of part of their clans are confused. It can be concluded that is result from two reasons: (1) the transferring of Japanese family name, Chinese last name and clan’s name (2) the misunderstanding of the concepts of the clan, the four systems of Hla’alua and the family name registrated in the household registration of Japanese ruled period. Furthermore, even some clans still existed decades ago could be forgotten, and Hla’alua people lived in Namasia area even forgot which clan they belong to.
It shows that Hla’alua people now accept child as one of them either their father or mother is Hla’alua, even including matrilocal man. The problems that their language is endangered and the clan system became unsolid have awaked the sense of crisis, and Hla’alua people start trying to reinforce their ethnicity border. They also make a concrete demonstration of their ethnicity border they defined through the houses of each clan on their own festival “Miatungusu”.
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