The Indigenous Knowledge and the Interpretation of Culture in the Reconstruction Processes in Rinari
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Gadeljeman, Valagas
Abstract
Typhoon Morakot severely destroyed the traditional territories of Taiwan indigenous peoples, making the public gradually accumulate the idea of those keywords, like disaster, development, hillside and mudflow. Therefore the public further developed the single stories of disasters and the cause of them. In order to more deeply understand Makazayazaya, Kucapungane and Tavaljan communities’ process of facing the disasters, this study adopted the measure of ethnographic field work to enter the complicated indigenous areas of post disaster resettlement and reconstruction, and to participate in the reconstructive life of the indigenous peoples. At the last, this study further observed indigenous peoples’ ability of coping with the natural and human-made disasters, by comparing the lives in the mountain with the lives in the phase of post-disaster resettlement and the lives in the permanent houses.
In addition, this thesis is derived from the perspective of indigenous youth researcher to understand the value of belief and the daily lives of indigenous peoples after the disaster. It’s all resulted from the different ideas of time and space from different society and cultures. And this is the short-cut of understanding the local knowledge and the information which are inaccessible and unreachable for the decision makers and the authorities. Nevertheless, it requires long-term research and continual documenting on the traditional measures of disaster mitigation and accommodation of indigenous peoples after the disasters, which becomes the crucial issue of those three societies need to face from time to time. Indigenous societies have the special and unique connection to the place and territory. Cultural identity can’t live without local identity. However, how to maintain the collective sense of place and territory as possible and preserve the unique relation between community and place turned out to be a critical issue.
In the end of the thesis, it combined the information obtained from the in-depth interviews in all chapters and the viewpoints from the literature on sociology of space to conclude the knowledge of disaster and suggestions that derived from the indigenous perspectives in disaster study.
Subjects
原住民傳統知識
災後重建
災後安置
禮納里部落
莫拉克
Type
thesis
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