The Research of Cultural Ecology of Millet of Bunon

• Main Authors: Ya-Hui Hsu, 徐雅慧
• Other Authors: Yeong-Tyi Day
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/29469548271016614575

碩士 === 中原大學 === 文化資產研究所 === 94 === Every indigenous tribes in the past was constantly looking for and setting up the settlement with a long period of time. To fulfilling the demand of crops via agriculture and harvests via gathering, hunting, and fishing, a set of means to interact and share the forests and rivers with all organisms on the land. It is essential that the indigenes needs to be harmoniously coexist with the natural. On the contrary, it is completely different from the living style of robbing nature in the modern industrialized society. A sound settlement appears three characteristics, i.e. (1) continuity; (2) safe; (3) harmonious, which guarantees health of both individuals and the race and maintains existence of the biological species. It is undoubtedly that the practice in the traditional indigenous life contains sustainability. Bunon tribe has at least 9 titles to the millet for its different growth stages as follows: maduh, miu-luk, minbanitul, mibuhutug, misapah, vali-nagsa, mikis-kis, mibulav/min-nauaz, masa-sa. It is perceived that the Bunon depends more on the millet than other tribes. The millet is playing an extremely important role in the indigenous society. It is not only the source of grain, but also the symbols of social position, the wealth of a family, or even more. Therefore, the Bunon has to spend more time and efforts on millet. The Bunon and other biological species have mutually beneficially interacted with each other for a long time. The rules made by the experience of human/organism interaction are defined as ' traditional ecological knowledge '. Cultural ecology is a discipline dealing with questions, such as how people make proper adjustment to responds the change of environment by traditional ecological knowledge. Using ethnological methods for the field investigation, this study will emphasize on participating, observing, investigating and visiting a Bunon village and analyze the interaction between the mankind and its environment. It will also attempt to understand the point of view from Bunon to the millet, agricultural processes of millet, and the development of millet in Bunon. Furthermore, this study will explain how culture plays its dynamic function when mankind adapts to the environment. The interaction between the Bunon and the millet can reveal the mechanism of symbiosis which is developed from the sensitivity of indigenes to the nature.