Seminar II: Josiane CAUQUELIN
06 NOVEMBER 23
IOE-EFEO Talk
Speaker:
Dr. Josiane CAUQUELIN
Honorary Researcher, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Chair:
Prof. LIU Pi-chen
Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica
Title:
The Inevitable Extinction of Shamanism in Puyuma (Nanwang)
Date:
2023. 11. 6 (Monday) 14:00
Venue:
Conference Room R2319, Rear Building
Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica
Abstract:
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.
The talk will be given in English. Please fill out this form to register: https://forms.gle/EMyjHqHTCQXzJzJD8
lecture
Speaker:
Dr. Josiane CAUQUELIN
Honorary Researcher, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Chair:
Prof. LIU Pi-chen
Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica
Title:
The Inevitable Extinction of Shamanism in Puyuma (Nanwang)
Date:
2023. 11. 6 (Monday) 14:00
Venue:
Conference Room R2319, Rear Building
Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica
Abstract:
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.
The talk will be given in English. Please fill out this form to register: https://forms.gle/EMyjHqHTCQXzJzJD8
lecture