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

Title : Puyuma Shamans and Society


Date : Saturday, March 9 2019. 12:00 p.m.
Venue : Lounge 1F, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei

Abstract:
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.

Organizers :
- EFEO Taipei Center
- Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica

The talk will be given in english.

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