英文摘要 |
The Paiwan are an aboriginal tribe inhabiting the southeastern part of the Island of Taiwan. They are known by ethnologists for their unique material culture, namely their famous wood-carvings;their bilateral social organization, and their hierarchical class system. Materials for the present article were collected among the Eastern Paiwan in three villages, Chialan, Chiehta and Pilu of Chinfung Hsiang, Taitung Hsien. Field work was done during the winter of 1963,the summer of 1964 and the spring of 1965, about six months total. Both the traditional inquiry method and participant observation were used along with more specific interviewing of mothers. The scale for the mother interviews, based on the SML scale, is much the same as those of Sears (1957) and Landy (1959). Since the field project was multipurpose, only limited time can be devoted by the author to the investigation of child rearing and training. Therefore only six mothers were interviewed. Their children's ages were 5,5,7,7,9,and 13 respectively. These six families were from the middle class in the villages. The average cashincome for the families in the year 1964 was about NT$5,000 yuen (US$125). |