Investigation and Historical Research on the Traditional Coastal Place Names of Jinzun

Investigation and Historical Research on the Traditional Coastal Place Names of Jinzun

For this study, members of Indigenous tribal communities located along the eastern coast of Taiwan were interviewed to obtain information related to traditional coastal place names. Geographic information systems were employed to combine these place names with spatial data, and the characteristics and types of place names were analyzed to elucidate the relationships between the culture of tribal communities and the sea. An interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary perspective was applied for this study in its approach to textual research, interviews, historiography, fieldwork, anthropology, and geographical analysis; a historical investigation of traditional place names in Eastern Taiwan was also conducted. This study focused on Jinzun, located in Donghe Township, Taitung County. In this study, historical records and oral histories were reviewed, exploring how changes in place names over the centuries reflect the continuity and discontinuity of Taiwanese history.