英文摘要 |
This study takes Songhe Tribe (Tbulan in tribal language) in Heping Dist., Taichung City as the principal research setting. The study investigates cultural memory and heritage centering on chants singing by means of interviewing tribal residents of different ages, ethnicity, and gender. By doing so, the current study presents alterations and differentiations of tribal residents' attitude toward chants of different eras, as well as a cross-sectional field research on the re-production of the meaning of these contemporary chants of aborigines; it also demonstrates shifts of the aborigines' cultural situations and response strategies along with surroundings changes. The current article comprehends the tribe as a setting of cultural memory with multiple implications, where tribal residents creates discourses and narrative by singing and listening to tribal chants to uncover historical memory and identity construction hidden in the chants. These experiences of chants singing and listening are not only engraved in the life of an individual but also in the collective memory. From the perspective of cultural implementation and re-production, the meanings of Songhe tribal chants comes from the daily practice in tribal spaces by its agents; the practice is not merely the maintenance and construction of cultural memory, but also a repeated confirmation of cultural identity. |