傳統Kuba的形貌、意義再論與「鄒族文化自然中心」的營運

Reconsidering the Form and Meanings of Traditional Kuba and the Administration ofthe Tsou Culture and Nature Center

本文先再論阿里山鄒「男子會所」（kuba）的形貌與意義，進一步釐清族人傳統居住文化中，人觀、宇宙神靈觀、地理自然觀如何展現在kuba、emoo，部落實質空間裡的生活、儀式的種種行為與儀節道具中，構成一種二元對立又交融的獨特「文化象徵體系」思維，其中有關kuba的最為全面。
其次本文回顧1997、2004年規劃之「鄒族文化自然中心」，將之比擬為族人之「現代kuba」，是為未來「鄒族自治區」的「文化、自然資源部」。然而，很顯然長年來，政府之施政並未正視「族群意識」的助長工作。反而將傳統「部落社會」延續的「部落主義」促發諸族群內之「分離主義」。因此，筆者再倡議北鄒、南鄒族人積極參與、分工合作、營運已完工之「鄒族文化自然中心」，鞏固「鄒族意識」，推動早日成立「鄒族自治區」。

The paper firstly reinterprets the form and meanings of the Alisan Tsou’s kuba (man house), and clarifyfurther that in the Tsou’s traditional dwelling culture, how their cosmology, conception of humankind, geography and nature display on the living behaviors, various rites happening in kuba, emoo (main dwelling) and tribe settlement. All these form a dualisticbut also mixed cultural and symbolic order system in their collective thought, that mainly embody on the kuba. Secondly, the paper reviews the planning of the Tsou Culture and Nature Center in1997 and 2004 AD. It was actually considered as Tsou people’s “modernkuba”and the Ministry of Culture and Natural Resource of the prospective “Tsou Autonomic District.”Somehow, it is argued that for many years, the government ignore promoting aboriginal people their own identifies as differentethnic groups. On the contrary, the traditional tribal society itself extent tribalismand instead reinforceseparatism within ethnic groups. So that, the author advocates again that the north Tsou and the south Tsou should work together and co-administrate the newly built “the Tsou Culture and Nature Center”, strengthen “Tsou identity,”and promote founding “Tsou Autonomic District”as soon as possible.