Conférencier：Dr. Josiane CAUQUELIN
Honorary Researcher, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)

Titre : Puyuma Shamans and Society


Date : Samedi 9 mars 2019, 12:00.
Lieu : Lounge 1F, Institut d'ethnologie, Academia Sinica, Taipei

Résumé:
Religious practices in Puyuma society have been undergoing a dynamic recomposition process for many years. The study of ritual among Puyuma people, i.e., the distribution of activities, and the analysis of myths, shows an initial change took place at about the time hunting was abandoned for rice-growing around the end of the 19th century, when men left shamanistic practices to women, but continued to perform community rites. Puyuma society was probably once a shamanistic hunting society, whose religious practitioners were men, before becoming a society of shamans whose religious practitioners are women. A second change in practices took place during the period of Japanese colonisation. Today, the shamanistic rituals integrate some practices belonging to cults of possession.

Organisateurs :
- EFEO Centre Taipei
- Institut d'ethnologie, Academia Sinica

La conférence est donnée en anglais.

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