A study of the Bamboo Diviner and Shaman in Tjavualji Tribe, Taimali, Taitung : the life history of Vuvu Gaitjang （Mr. ZHUO Liang Kuang）

• Main Authors: Yu, Ming-Chi, 余明旂
• Other Authors: Kuan, Da-wei
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ua276s

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 民族學系 === 105 === Tjavualji is a Paiwan village which is south of Panapanayang, the place of tribal origin. Geographically, Tjavualji village is located in the peripheral area of Paiwan tribe, and also the area of ethnic heterogeneity. It represents the cultural diversity of both Paiwan and Pinuyumayan tribes. There is no maljeveq, a characteristic Paiwan ceremony, in Tjavualji. Its main ceremony is masalut （millet harvest ceremony） and to worship the ancestors in Ruvuaqan, the place of origin. This thesis documents the 90-year-old ritual expert, Vuvu Gaitjang （Mr. ZHUO Liang Kuang）. His life history could be seen as a dictionary of Eastern Paiwan. The importance and significance of his life history is meaningful to the locale. This study is based on the interviews that I have conducted with him successively since October 2014. In this thesis, I first represent Vuvu Gaitjang’s family and social background and the process of becoming a male shaman from a bamboo diviner. We are able to understand his worldview by examining the concept of spirit, space, direction, and worshipping. I then illustrate Vuvu Gaitjang’s ritual practices, analyze the classification and properties of tribal rituals of the Tjavualji village, and summarize the principles of ritual practising. Last, I aim to investigate and document this culture in basis by observing the ritual practices, analyzing the structure of incantations, and contextualizing the ritual space, so that we may able to pass down the ritual knowledge of Tjavualji village. This study finds that in Taimali, in the changes of the times, the multicultural blend of infiltration, form a unique cultural appearance. Tamali is an important area for the preserve of the "cultural diversity". In Tjavualji, the strict social hierarchy of the Paiwan people had been collapsed and the order of the gender division in the ritual had been broken too. The inseparable relationship between the symbolic meaning and belief system of rituals and ritual objects made an unique witchcraft culture here in Tamali. This thesis not only reflects on research methods, but also proposes suggestions for cultural revival of the ritual incantation, as well as for the further discussion.