IOE-EFEO CONFÉRENCE


Conférencière:
Dr Josiane Cauquelin
Chercheur honoraire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Chair:
Professeur Liu Pi-chene
Chercheuse, Institut d'ethnologie, Academia Sinica

Sujet:
The Inevitable Extinction of Shamanism in Puyuma (Nanwang)

Date:
2023. 11. 6 (Lundi)14:00

Lieu:
Salle de conférence R2319, bâtiment arrièreInstitut d'Ethnologie, Academia Sinica

Résumé:
Nanwang Puyuma is the language spoken by the Puyuma people in the village of Nanwang, in Taitung, southeast of Taiwan. Through a short film that covers a period of nearly 40 years, I will show that we are witnessing the loss of shamanism in this Puyuma community. The Puyuma used to be a shamanistic society. It then became a society of shamans during the second half of the 20th century, and is now a society with only one shaman left. This process has been witnessed around the world among former shamanistic societies in contact with state-run societies, as stated by Roberte Hamayon (1982: 42): shamanistic societies “only experience state centralisation through acculturation or the domination of a state-controlled society, or at the end of an internal evolution which results in the marginalization, transformation, or even disappearance of shamanism.” I will analyze the reasons and the mechanims of such an extinction while also discussing the importance of the Puyuma shamanistic ritual texts that have been preserved through some of my publications.

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