英文摘要 |
Recently we observe vigorous emergence of actions to return to the former settlement in various forms among Taiwan aborigines. These actions to return to the abandoned settlement mostly focus on the onsite remembrance of the lost days and reformation of ethnic identity, potentiating into preservation/ reconstruction of the former buildings and tourism. We hold, however, it is much more urgent now for us to pay attention to surface cleaning and field sketching of the former buildings, culture heritage preservation and collecting the interview data based on the new findings therefrom. In contrast to the relatively limited methods of traditional mainstream presentation of tribe history, namely, literature review and field interview, albeit appendixed with media profiles in video, music, models, etc., we see more divergent development in methodology in the anthropologists' archeological actions on former settlement. We thus dare, on the one hand, to propose to borrow one of the scientific methods that anthropologists often use, viz., surface cleaning and take it as a plausible alternative to record and present tribe history. Although we use methods similar to archeology, we have to emphasize this study is not legitimately archeological. Without digging into the ground, we only adopt the archeological methods of cleaning on the surface: (1) area classification–we record the location and context when retrieving the artifacts on the surface; (2) we write down findings in each area on each date; (3) photos and grid drawings are immediately taken when new phenomena or historical buildings are found in surface cleaning. On the other hand, we adopt architectural technology of measurement and drafting in field sketch, representing accurate site ratios, directions of the historical buildings, ratios and profiles of the phenomena, etc. Afterwards, we compare the new findings with the existing literature, and based on that comparison we revisit the elders in the tribe and obtain new oral interview data. To sum up, we first review and summarize the existing literature and interview data. Then we include the findings we obtain via surface cleaning, measurement and field sketch onsite. Finally the tribal youth revisit the elders with our new findings in hand and obtain new interview data. We hope to contribute a more complete presentation of the history of Songlin Tribe in the light of these three dimensions. |