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台灣原住民平埔族整理族譜之觀察－以《潘睦派下潘氏族譜》為例
Observation of the Genealogy of Taiwan Aboriginal Pin-pu Tribe
摘要
族譜是為民族之學，用意和歷史可謂相同。此一家族之歷史，或可溯其遠祖，或可維繫傳統，不單使子孫不忘其本，更將孕育出民族團結之大義。在台灣，近年來尋根修譜的工作中，幾乎少有原住民纂修族譜的記錄，但這並不代表他們是無根的一代。台灣原住民平埔族自古就在台灣生活，學者稱其為「南島語族」（Austronesian），由於沒有文字，且地緣上很早就與外人接觸，因而固有習俗改變甚大，語言也多成為死語，故「尋根」工作對其而言，是相當的困難。《潘睦派下潘氏族譜》是台灣台中縣神岡鄉岸裡大社潘家第十一世孫潘稀棋牧師（原住民姓名為打必里‧大宇）費時三年，所完成的一部台灣原住民平埔族珍貴的族譜。本文即依此家史見證，探索台灣原住民平埔族整理族譜的緣由、心情與方法，進而尋覓其族群歷史發展、家族盛衰、文化特色、宗教民俗等寶貴史料，以寫下這一豐富的平埔文化。族譜是家族檔案，具有史料價值，其纂修與保存亦都具戒慎之心，台灣原住民族在台灣所走過的足跡，終將因各族各姓族譜的編修而延續，源遠流長。
並列摘要
Genealogy is the study of the history of a race, and sometimes is equivalent to the history of the race. From the history of a family, we can trace their lineage directly back to its progenitors and thereby maintain the tradition of the tribe by which the whole tribe may be unified. Recent studies of genealogy seldom include those of the aboriginal people here in Taiwan, but it doesn't mean they don't have their lineages. Aboriginal Ping-pu tribes have been living in Taiwan with a very long history, and researchers usually call them ＂Austronesian＂. Their traditional customs have been changed a lot because they don't have written language of their own and there have been early contacts with other people. It is also very difficult to find their ＂roots＂ in history because their oral language hasn't been spoken by anyone for many years. Rev. Pang has recently compiled a book of lineage which took him three years to document the lineage of a family of the aboriginal Ping-pu tribe living here in Tai-chung County. This study is to investigate the cause, mood, and methods of Ping-pu people who took part in the process of compiling a book of lineage. The purpose of this study is to document the ethnographical and historical aspects of the Ping-pu people. Lineage is a document of a family and has its historical values; therefore we must be very careful in preserving and documenting its lineage which will attest to the development of aboriginal people here in Taiwan.