- 期刊
大厝宅年節祭儀中的環境嗅覺經驗
The Environmental Olfactory Experience in Contemplating Folklore Rituals of Tua-tsú-té
摘要
本文將後現代主義地理學視為多元感官文化的地理經驗－知識表達。本文只侷限在嗅覺地理學(Olfactory Geography)視域，從嗅－嚐(smell-taste)知覺系統和地理環境現實之問，相對的微尺度感官的經驗加以探索，主要是著重在氣味與地方特徵的關聯，及在空間組織中的位置、方向等地理空間經驗的理解與詮釋。 本文試圖從台灣福佬社群傳統大厝宅（三合院式家屋）年節祭儀、地方系統及其時間、空間常規中，所共同具有的等級性燒香行為象徵系統中，就其所建構的嗅覺景域(Smellscape building)作為「深描」對象，理解與詮釋其意義、意含，以揭示福佬社群中個體，是在年節祭儀化成為(becoming)社會成員的過程中，福佬社會結構和祭儀行為者所存在的互動組合的「雙重性」。並論述鼻腔區域的吸入／呼出「態式」與時空維度的「向式」的關係，及祭儀地方的香味嗅覺運動趨向愉悅的審美、善的社會倫理、平安的存在狀態等正向價值的過程。
並列摘要
The present study assumes Post-modern geography as an approach incorporating multi-sensuous culture that is capable of dealing with geographical experience and its knowledge representation. Due to page limit, this article presents only olfactory geography that explores the relations between smell sensuous system and micro geographical realities. Major endeavor of this paper is placed on how a place's aroma is linked to a place's special characteristics, and how the social and cultural location and direction of a geographical space is understood and interpreted in spatial organization. Using Taiwanese traditional Tua-tsu-te (San-he-yuan dwelling units) as a manifestation object, this article depicts the integration of folklore rituals, and place system and its time-space routinization, and portrays how the result of the integration is manifest in the hierarchical order representing by the usage of incense as a behavior system. Such a metaphorical behavior system also re-enforces the building of smell-scape, that can be used to understand and interpret its meaning and the socialization (i.e., becoming social) of individuals in traditional Taiwanese society. The duality of traditional social structure and folklore ritual behavior is a dynamic one that flows as individual's micro olfactory system's inhaling and exhaling. The mode of inhaling and exhaling and the vector of time-space are deemed as the two sides of a coin where thick description of smell-scape can be achieved. In final part, the present study advocates the positive valuation of the enjoyment of aesthetics, the goodness of social ethics, and the peace being of individuals through Taiwanese folklore rituals.