| 英文摘要 |
Based upon the ethnography of inter-ethnic interactions and marriage among the Rukai, this paper explores the interrelations of their
images of others, identification, ‘ethnicity,’ and relatedness in changing economies. Firstly, Rukai making of otherness involves their sense of place/space and perceptions of habitual daily practices unique to these places. These vernacular practices are considered to embody otherness and then constitutive of personhood via kinship practices. Secondly, Rukai construct of ‘ethinicity’implies the similarity or sameness among people, referring to affective comfort and to mutual likings among relatives. By constrast, the practices indicative of otherness, such as headhunting and Puyuma shamanistic practices, take on the meaning of the negation of relatedness symbolically and emotionally. In the wake of the generalization of capitalism, however, younger Rukai people’s interactions with others are mainly driven by emotions, and they insist to base their marriages on romatic love, seen as an act of resistance in the eyes of their parents. These shows the changing modalities regarding the mutual constructs of kinship and ‘ethnicity’among the Rukai.
When in the face of others, the term ‘Rukai’ is often employed to manifest their position in the constitution of the state. Moreover, the classification of ‘Four Ethnic Groups’prompted in changing social circumstances takes part in transforming the native category kacalisiya into a more encompassing one of social grouping to incorporate other indigenous peoples in Taiwan. Accordingly, this transformed category kacalisiya offers the Rukai with a style and basis to think of all indigenous peoples as an imagined community. However, in order to challenge the authority of high nobles, Rukai commoners’ political appropriation of the transformed category kacalisiya leads to the substantiation of high nobles’marital union with Chinese. In this sense, ‘ethnicity’ in contemporary Rukai context is constructed as ‘politics of substance’. |
