新竹客家村落的閹雞賽：地方社群的文化建構與本體論

The Castrated Cock Contest in the Hakka Village of sinchu County:The cultural Construction and Ontology in the Local Community

本研究企圖透過對新竹客家村落之閹雞比賽的詮釋，說明「村落」層次的地方社群的社會過程在整個社會結構裡的存在屬性，一個實存論的問題。在這個過程裡，身體成為自然性與社會性張力的協調中，第一個需要面對的實境。

Through the interpretation of the castrated cock contest in a Hakka Village in Northern Taiwan，this paper explores the ontology of the cocial process of local community in social structure. In this process，the physical body is the first realm in which the tension between the natural and the social palys out.