Crossing、Transformation and Continuities:The new context of canoe in Langtau tribe in the Betel Island

• Main Authors: qalup.damalasan, 卡洛普‧達瑪拉山
• Other Authors: Li-Ming Hsia
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9hbb79

碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 南島文化研究所 === 95 === Canoe, the key symbol of Lanyu culture, has become the most important cultural property in the Betel Island. ”Canoe Culture” is the honor and proud of Lanyu society, and is the most popular commodity in Taiwan cultural goods market. Langtau tribe preserves best quantity Lanyu Canoe and is acknowledged by other five tribes as the most traditional village among them. 　　This essay is mainly concerned with relationships which are established in canoe-building. The studies in the past emphasized that the male dominate canoe and the ocean, but ignored the dual symbol of gender around the canoe-building field. This article tries to offer different dimensions to understand the canoe-building procedure that implicates the division of labor based on gender；in other words, the procedure of canoe-building acquire the extensional function of the house impermanency which achieves and balances the dual relation of gender , which can be traced to the core conception of house--spouse. All the ceremonies bear social relationship and become the strength maintaining their society. Market economy is the most important power in modern age, economic activities influence the Betel Island which is positively involved in modern society when she faces the social contact. The facts of internal and external influence include commoditization of the canoe, amazing tourism development, different culture identities between generations, and the competitive spirit deeply embedded in Lanyu people, which accelerate the procedure of the speed of Lanyu social change. Knowledge-hierarchy between generations and long-term knowledge formation have become unimportant. All these changes rebuild structure to stabilize the Lanyu society. 　　Lanyu society, through crossing and transforming the traditional culture conception, try to maintain their material and social culture in modern age which change rapidly. This essay is based on the new canoe-building model and the role of machine boat in Lanyu society, and discusses the possible direction and procedure of social change when they face to these social facts. The connection of money and carving of canoe shows us the new Lanyu cultural image; in this social condition, the cultural recognition of Lanyu gradually is different from what they had before, and muddies the boundary between traditional and new canoe-building model that is clearly distinct in the past.