Abstract
Ancestral place, ＂old tribe＂, and ＂traditional territory＂ have often been the main appeal issues of aboriginal social and cultural activities in Taiwan. With the illustration of several Taiwan aboriginals documentaries on topics of land, tribal maps, hiking and searching for the original habitat, this essay investigates the following three inter-related questions through the embodiments and multiple sensory experiences evoked by the visual medium: (1) How do the walking, body movement and sensory experiences shown in the documentary footage narrate the themes of land, territory and ethnic legends? (2) What graphic-discursive actions are articulated by the walking and bodily movements shown in the documentaries, which differ from literal, geometrical and national discourse? (3) What are the interacting ethical relationships between land, tradition, culture and environment as expressed in these walking and body actions? By investigating and analyzing these core issues, this essay attempts to foreground the aboriginal body movement discourse of traditional territory and the visual sovereignty as manifested in these documentaries.
| Original language | Chinese (Traditional) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 33-92 |
| Number of pages | 60 |
| Journal | 台灣社會研究季刊 Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies |
| Issue number | 91 |
| State | Published - 1 Jun 2013 |
Keywords
- traditional territory
- walking
- embodied skills
- aboriginal movements