THE TRAJECTORIES OF HISTORY:A STUDY ON CEPO'INCIDENT'S ARCHIVES, NARRATION, AND PERFORMANCE [HUALIEN, TAIWAN]

• Main Authors: Huang-Yung Pai, 白皇湧
• Other Authors: Hsu-Ta Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67749405256169461632

碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 族群關係與文化研究所 === 96 === Drawing on the question, “What is ‘History’?” from archives, narration, and performance of the Amis ethnic people who lives beside the estuary area of Xiu-Gu-Luan River [Hualien, Taiwan], this thesis clarifies the ways of how people perceive history. Human beings had learned the abstract idea of “Time” from perceived of transit by surroundings. Self-representation of time is the beginning of historical thought. Through the perceived and self-knowledge toward the movement of time, a historical consciousness will eventually form a historical knowledge. The motivation of exploring historical consciousness which is seeking a basic aspect of existence, the “wherefrom” and “whereto” question, and how to orientate themselves under the flowing time? The time, which expected by one’s own can be infused into what he really experienced, and so on the contrary. “Humane Zeit” is a result of mental activities by each other, which created by experience and expectation to contend with the oppression from “Naturzeit.” The behavior of “doing history” by human beings, in fact is to disengage from the end of the flesshliness dissolution. Under a diachronic transition, the indication of Cepo’ estuary has been enlarged from “a place” to an imagination of “a tribe” in the past, it also connected to the collective memory of diaspora, and shaped the spread of Amis Tribe on the east coast of Taiwan in the modern time. By means of the commotion conflict between Qing Dynasty’s regime and culture in that area, the sanguinary incident was a start of arising their local history/consciousness.