| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 人類學研究所 === 99 === Birth, aging, illness and death are the processes that everyone must go through. In the Chinese society, both weddings and funerals represent the most critical rituals of all. Death, however, comes with the shading of taboo and mystery. Since the current structure of the society has changed in a way that the traditional funeral industry has to take impacts coming from factors like professionalizing and policy management, the resulting consequence is that recent relating researches are no longer restricted by rites, religions, or even a comprehensive record. The research has indeed turned into the investigations with aspects extending to funeral employees, funeral hardware facilities and services, funeral innovation, funeral policies and enterprise management. Funeral rites which are performed by men are exactly like what James L. Watson said “it can be treated as an operating mechanism for the people, the nation or the race”. Funeral culture in Puli has been affected by factors like the local social context and the background and training of the funeral employees, therefore, it has developed some funeral styles that are different from that of the contemporary Taiwanese metropolises.
This paper does not only record the contemporary funeral structure in Puli, meanwhile, it has also discovered that the unofficial economic organization quality of funeral industry in a small town like Puli did allow the town to be situated with more than 23 funeral homes. Consequently, the funeral employees in the region are often not professional and play multiple roles. An interaction model of reciprocity and exchange has thus been produced making favors a critical consideration in the competition of the business.
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