Coloniazation and embodiment -- The colonial body history of Druku(1914-1945)

• Main Authors: Lin Bo-Chang, 林伯昶
• Other Authors: 莊勝義
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55627094320510256524

碩士 === 國立花蓮師範學院 === 多元文化研究所 === 92 === This research is aimed to explore Druku people’s cultural shift in the colonial encounter with Japanese empire by a “body history” approach. Through the dynamic process of disembodied / embodied, the disappearance and transformation of Druku’s traditional body techniques is done in tandem with colonial Empire’s bringing new body techniques. Several important aspects embodied the great shift in Druku’s culture and the cultural break-off between generations have been explored. They are, for instance, the symbolic, productive, medical, and religious system. At the beginning of colonial encounter, Druku people took strong resistance. Yet through colonial monopoly of physical force, Druku people finally subjected to colonial power. After the colonial war in 1914, the governmentality of colonial power was shown in a disciplinary procedure enforced to Druku’s body and rendered Druku’s body to present a docile and useful way. In the colonial process, the power techniques that Japanese empire exercised on Druku’s body─such as the police system, scientific knowledge (biology and anthropology) and the biopower that exercised in school, clinics and army─ were not just from the West but from Japanese traditional way such as the integrated training of body and mind in jodo and the physical training in school. Besides, the kimono system embodying the order of social class and obedience is also different from the Western culture.