The aborigines of Taiwan : the Puyuma : from headhunting to the modern world
Title:
The aborigines of Taiwan : the Puyuma : from headhunting to the modern world
Author:
Cauquelin, Josiane.
ISBN:
9780415600033
9780415314138
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.
Physical Description:
xviii, 277 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Contents:
The Puyuma -- The village -- Gods and men -- Birth and death -- Family horizons -- Dual organisation and age-system -- Shamans -- Material civilisation -- The aborigines in Taiwan today -- Myth of the origin of the people of Katipul -- Legend of the division of the land -- Legends told by the Amis : Kiwit's war against the Puyuma -- Story told by Valikai, a Katipul -- Legend narrated by Taylor -- Patintin song -- Chronology of the investitures.
Abstract:
"The first comprehensive study of the Puyuma people of Taiwan, this book is based on extensive field research over a period of twenty years. The Puyuma are an Austronesian people, who today number less than 370,000. In Taiwan, they are the least known of the aboriginal groups, numbering only 6,000, and inhabiting the Southeastern province of Taitung. The Puyuma are today settled farmers, but until the twentieth century they subsisted on horticulture and hunting. The village that forms the focus of this study is called Puyuma (or Nanwang for the Taiwanese administration), whose inhabitants number 1,300.
The study looks at the historical changes in the status and definition of these people in relation to the central state, the criteria by which people determine their own ethnic identity and the evolution of that identity through history. The increasing awareness in the West of the importance of ethnic relations makes this an especially timely book."--Jacket.
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Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-270) and index.
Field 805:
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