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Exploring Ethnic Interaction and Culture Reinvention from Perspectives of Exchange: A

study of Miaoli Atayal in the Early Japanese Colonial Period

Mei-Hsia Wang

ABSTRACT

How “exchange” works as a mechanism to link social sub-systems has

been discussed by many anthropologists. Mauss emphasized society as a

totality: economy is not independent of kinship, religion and politics, but

rather all of these four aspects are considered as a whole. He, however,

neglected to consider how the same form of behavior may have different

meanings according to local contexts, and what the dynamics of social

change involve.

This paper investigates the transformation of capitalism from locals’

viewpoints of exchange. The meaning of exchange in local contexts is firstly

considered; especially, how exchange connects and transforms relationships

among different levels. Further questions follow, including how the locals

perceive the exchange process and measure the value of objects, and

whether images of money synthesize several meanings and themselves

embody history in Atayal society.

My previous research suggested that the Atayal have not become

alienated from each other and from their products by changes. In deciding

whether to become involved in growing new crops, they are not solely

influenced by questions of market price and stability, but they also take into

account how the new crops fit into their traditional understanding of work and

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the values they place on it. As my previous research focused on one

community only, I try in this paper to further explore the transformation of

capitalism in wider contexts. This research, therefore, combines the

perspectives of historical and area studies to focus on issues such as various

ways of exchange in different periods and areas, creation of social

relationships and culture, and the agency of history.

Keywords: exchange, ethnic relation, reinvention of culture, Japanese

colonization, Miaoli, the Atayal

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mechanism

Mauss 1990 [1950] Polanyi 1968 Sahlins 1972 MacCormack 1976, 1982 Gregory

1982 McCall 1982 Parry 1986 M. Strathern 1988, 1992 Humphrey & Hugh-Jones, eds

1992 Weiner 1992 Davis 1992 Polanyi 1968 ——

embedded

Polanyi Mauss 1990 1950

total social phenomena

hau kula

hau

Weiner 1992

difference hierarchy

inalienable possessions

Weiner

Weiner

Johnson 1998

99

inalienable objects

alienable objects

Gregory 1982:100-101

pure gift

Parry 1986

Parry 1989

credit Hart 1982 1986

Sharp 1953 Geertz 1963 Bohannan 1967 Shalins 1972 Taussig

1980 Gudeman 1986 Kopytoff 1986 Appadurai, eds 1986 Parry & Bloch, eds 1989

Gudeman & Rivera 1990 Gell 1992 Miller 1997 Sahlins 2000

Sharp 1953 Tiv

Bohannan 1967

Geertz 1963

Toren 1989

Bloch 1989

M. Strathern 1990, 1992 Gell 1992

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mpbay

mpbay

m'iyu

pila mtbazi

mpbay

gaga 1 mpbay

mpbay

lyutux2

2003, 2006

psyukan pesyu kuhay

hmaw psyukan

101

tuyuh utux b’ani

“yuwah/yunu” yunu

yuwah lyutux

pasani

amays pasani

gaga 3

yanay

gaga

tuyuh

utux b'ani

utux b'ani

tuyuh

pasani

tuyuh

yanay yanay 4

yuwah yunu

tuyuh tuyuh

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tuyuh

ainomi 6 yanay

yanay tuyuh ainomi

gaga

m'iyu m'iyu yuwaw

mp'iyu pyugun mpbay mpbay

m'iyu

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m'iyu msbayux

1939

2006 65-69 1960

2006 152-156

m'iyu lukus

m'iyu papus

lyutux

2006

63-64

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1936 11 25

Mesingaw Siyat

Besu Payan Sayta 16

Twasaw

Mesingaw7

pkbayun

pkbayun

ksyukay ksyugay ta pkbayun

103

pbazih

iyugun

iyugun Iyugun mp'iyu

mp'iyu

iyugun mp'

mtbazi

mtbazi

mtbazi

mtbazi

mtbazi

mtbazi

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1 8

1974 14-15

2002 144

12

369 10 50

1914 123-126

105

1 13

1984 157

11

71 93-144 2009

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1914 126-128

12

1

4 12 163

14 17 260

2 2 23

5 2 10

3 2

1 2 32

1 2 32

1 2 11

2 3 10

2 2 5

3 1 11

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107

14

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1997a 12

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2003a 396-397

2003a 436

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2003a 450

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18 35 1902

1997a 235

109

1997a 157

41

1997a 550 43

3

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lyutux mpbay

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2 2003d

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3 2003d

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abao

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2003a 458-459

29 11 27

Roomu Uuta Kaahoi

sbalay

sbalay

gaga

——

sbalay

2006 59-61 19

sbalay

2003a 459-461

113

2003a 463

29

12 10 Seppoho Sewaishi

Seyumin Seuohin Waipihau

U-Yon Marai U-Yon Yu-Pamaiei

Yuminshiri

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20

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moma watonofu moma yamai

29 12 18

12 24

2003a 468

29 12 25 Penchi Uwonai

Roomu Uuta Kaahoi

115

2003a 467-468

2003a 468-469

2003a 479-480

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2006

31-36

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2005 127

vs. vs.

vs.

Sumahan

Manaban

Bakari

2003b 483-484 21

Maai

117

2003b 485 31 3 Arubun

Taaya

2003b

628

29

29

30 11 Kaahoi Uuta

Kainumuku 12 26

Temokubonai Waatan Dyuuwasu

2003b 608

2003b 608-609

31 7

2003b 893

32

2003b 910-912

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32 6 27

2003b 946-947

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2003b 947, 958-959, 970, 1005-1007, 1012

v.s.22

23

1. 4

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35

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Me’ihu

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seyux

Seyux

musa kuzing Seyux Seyux seyux

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Seyux

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mpbay

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Mauss 1990 1950

axa pila axa hinu

axa simbwaxan rangin uwaw

axa

axa

axa hinu hinu

129

hinu hinu

hinu

hinu

hinu

pahagup hinu

hinu

hinu lyutux lyutux hinu

axa hinu

lmamu

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gaya

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utux 39

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2. lyutux

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