Returning to our mountain “Mowsa dgiyaq ka nami”: Study of the relationship between emotion and ethnic identity in the Truku youth, Taiwan.

• Main Authors: Tu, Yueh Chou, 杜岳洲
• Other Authors: Chien, Mei-Ling
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/jyyb62

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 人文社會學系族群與文化碩士班 === 106 === This study aims to explore and discuss the interplay between the emotional experiences and the representation of the Truku identity in the contemporary indigenous movements run by the Truku Youth. In addition, it looks at how their understandings of the Truku identity in these movements contribute to their practices and performances in their everyday life. Truku people are of the indigenous groups in Taiwan. Before 2004, they were officially recognized by the government as one of the subgroups in the Atayal group. However, most of them insisted, at that time, that they were not the Atayal. From the end of the 1990s, they initiated the Truku Name Rectification Movement, and successfully made the government recognized them as an independent indigenous group in 2004. This movement has subsequently inspired many young people to pay attentions to reflecting on many economic, political, and cultural problems in their society. Apart from engaging in indigenous movements, there have been increasingly young people return to their homelands. These coming-home Truku young people may engage or organize indigenous movements in their living places, investigating and writing history of their village, learning skills of making crafts from the elders, running indigenous mapping programs, or participating in the long-term care project, and so on. After the Sun-flower Movement in 2014, that young people come back to their homeland has become popular in Taiwan. But what is the implication of this situation to the society? And how these returning youth strategically achieve their goals and struggle with the reality? The coming home young people not only occurs in mainstream society, but also in indigenous communities. This ethnographic research can contribute to understand what Truku young people do, what they feel, and what they think about the future of Truku society, when they encounter with many social, economic, and political problems in their home.