英文摘要 |
The Ailiao Rukai relied primarily on traditional roads to connect, to migrate, and to travel before Taiwan Provincial Highway 24, known as the aorta of Wutai Township, was constructed. In the old days, their traditional roads facilitated close relationships among the Rukai people in the region and allowed departed or relocated kinsmen to maintain close connections with home. An intricate network, the traditional roads served the purposes of internal connection, livelihood support, and resource acquisition. By contrast, Taiwan Provincial Highway 24 was built based on the logic of geographic coordination and direction, traffic flows, and potential extensions. This means that these pathways to the farmland around the community, to the resource collecting areas, and hunting ground, the capillaries, were far more important than Provincial Highway 24, which overlays them and leads to the plains, settled by the Han from China. Which road is the main passageway? Which road is more important? A study from the temporal perspective that reflects changes will help shed light on their significance. The intertwining traditional roads at different geographical strata recorded the footsteps, memories, and stories of the local Rukai people. They were the important nodes in the axis of life for individuals as well as the community. This article explores roads laid out at different layers and imbedded in the lives of the Ailiao Rukai people, focusing on the maintenance of each road to accentuate different temporality and timescapes. In this context, studying the “objects” helps to elucidate on the formulation of roads through the interaction of various factors of materiality. Investigation from human perspectives, activities, events, and organizations provides clues to understanding the social and cultural actions under the influence of materials as well as the social significance of time. The material time and social time of roads, and their coordination and synchronization/ asynchronization and disruption highlight the (un)coevalness and the embodiment and emplacement of agency and ownership of time of local people through roads. |