歷史與記憶之間：從大關山事件談起

Between History and Memory: Dakuanshan Event and Beyond

楊淑媛(Shu-Yuan Yang)

《臺大文史哲學報》 59期 (2003/11) Pp. 31-63

https://doi.org/10.6258/bcla.2003.59.03

摘要

過去對布農人歷史觀的研究，強調「意象」而非「事件」的重要性。本文則以臺東縣海端鄉地區日據時期的三大事件為主要的分析對象，來探討歷史與記憶之間的關係，以及最近興建雕像、紀念碑和舉辦尋根之旅等新的記憶形式的興起，如何造成其關係的轉變。透過對民族誌與歷史材料的對照使用，筆者主張事件的研究，對理解布農人如何以其獨特的文化觀念來認識與表徵過去是很重要的。同時，筆者也強調布農人的歷史觀並不是封閉的、靜態的傳統，而與他們被擁有文字與歷史書寫傳統的殖民政權統治的經驗，以及台灣大社會的政治和文化變遷，有密切的關係。

關鍵字

布農人 ； 歷史 ； 記憶 ； 事件 ； 歷史意識

並列摘要

In the previous studies of Bunun perception of history, it is emphasized that the concept of 'image' rather than 'event' is of central importance. As a result, anthropologists have paid little attention to historical events. This article argues for the significance of the analysis of event in understanding how the Bunun perceive and represent the past in their culturally specific ways. Focusing on three main historical events in the Japanese colonial period in the area of Haituan Township, Taitung County, I use both ethnographic data and historical records to explore the relationships between memory and history, and to examine how such relationships are transformed after the recent emergence of new forms of commemoration, such as the construction of statue and monument, and the so-called 'root-searching trips' to the ancestral sites. It is stressed that the Bunun's senses of the past and their conceptualization of history should not be treated as a bounded, static tradition. Rather, they are closely related to the Bunun's experience of being ruled by colonial authorities equipped with literacy and written history, as well as the political and cultural changes in the wider Taiwanese society.

並列關鍵字

the Bunun ； history ； memory ； event ； historical consciousness

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