英文摘要 |
This research is carried out through the examination of Ministry of Science and Technology's Humanities Innovation and Social Practice (HISP) Project conducted by the National Taitung University (NTTU) in Lalepa tribal. By analyzing the Lalepa tribal culture health station participating in the ''Aboriginal Traditional Medical Care Project'' promoted by the Taitung County Government, this article aims to explore how farming enables people to be complete, and how health can be regained in the context of Paiwan culture. Through deconstructing the Paiwan understanding of caucau (human), sasusuwan (code of conduct) and kakudan (interactive customs), this research adopts fieldwork and action research to accompanied Lalepa tribal culture health station implemented reminiscence based on the Paiwan culture. The NTTU employs farming to conduct reminiscence therapy. In the reminiscence therapy, the NTTU used virtual and concrete farming activities to encourage elders to interact with youths in elaborating memories and practicing local knowledge to reconstruct the individual value of the elders. Additionally, the basatja (offering tribute) ceremony enables sharing millet with the tribe that relieves the social disability of the elderly due to the decline of physical function. By participating in these activities, the relationships between health and culture in Paiwan society was explored to reconsider the Possibility of establishing diverse models in the long-term care system. Moreover, it is needed to reconsidered the specialty of taking care of the elder. By examining how anthropologists translate imaginations of each other between policymakers and local care-taking practitioners, this research highlights that practicing cultural care should think from different angles. Through the example of how the Taitung University interact with the Lalepa tribal, this article argues that only through resonating the logic of local culture and the mechanism of professional care can the net supported the elderly be weaved. |