The Sociological Imagination of Aesthetics: Annotation of the Field of Indigenous Life Arts

• Main Authors: Chao-Zhi Yang, 楊超智
• Other Authors: Yu-Yao Wan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45693723175458361654

碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 族群關係與文化研究所 === 94 === The aim of this study is to explore how the concept of Indigenous life arts meets with the social reality in the developing process of cultural economy. Based on the hypothesis that Taiwan’s Indigenous life arts consist the characteristics of social facts, the dynamic nature of field itself deserves further discussions. Three questions raised in this study are as followings: 1. How “Indigenous life arts” are currently demonstrated in the process of modernity in Taiwan? 2. What kinds of the living conditions of Taiwan’s Indigenous artists are involved in practices of “Indigenous life arts”? 3. How to explain the values of “Indigenous life arts” of Taiwan? This study sets the “Indigenous life arts” as intermediary between the Aboriginal society and the main stream society. According to the theory of conceptual context, tendency and force are two major concepts in this study to discuss the approach on “the Sociological Imagination”, with open and persistent attitude. Moreover, the study not only describes “the Sociological Imagination” on the base of aesthetic concepts, but also carries out the dynamics of aesthetics with the ground of Sociological Imagination.