Mapping the taste: Ethnography of contemporary Bunun diet experience

• Main Authors: Chiu, Meng Ping, 邱夢蘋Langus‧Lavalian
• Other Authors: Kuan, Da Wei
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/554ve3

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 民族學系 === 104 === The aim of this thesis is to study how the Bunun (taki Bulbul: live in Wulu, Taitung, Taiwan) people’s contemporary diet experiences practiced in the distinct characters space and externalize simultaneously. In addition, I will uncover how the cultural idioms work in the forming of spaces experiences besides the external factors like modern state institutional authority and capitalist market economy. Therefore, to accomplish this purpose, this thesis would be divided into three parts about the eating experience in the Bunun social context: kinship, rituals and economic life. First, the space of kinship, the map of kinship which figurative by share the pork- as bride price- in the marriage, then externalize the marriage exchange cycles. Second, the sacred space is shaped by sharing the preys in the field of rituals public contrasting modern state institutions made traditional hunt illegal. Third, the space of economy, is the diagram about the food sources on the dining table, include a variety of dietary sources and its production / consumption space of daily life. The taki Bulbul indigenous community colonized by Japanese Empire and Government of the Republic of China, both colonialists implied the force from modern states and market economic system. Finally, because of these factors describe above, the indigenous spaces gradually be ruptured, yet the people still follow our cultural logic to constantly creating new food culture appearance, then relink the rupture space by our own way. This thesis not only provides a comprehensive view of contemporary Bunun people’s diets culture, but also layout the giant cross-regional, cross-time eating experience from a microscopic field of view.