平埔族婦女形象與角色的變遷（1603-1895）

Abstract

Abstract: This essay does a study on the Plain Aboriginal women on their appearance, the ways of production, and the transition on two sexes. The study depicts the roles and images of the Plain Aboriginal women in different periods through the long observation. It also discusses the attitude and strategies that the Pain Aboriginal women take when they face the exotic culture. Furthermore, it shows the result and the influences that the exotic culture causes on the Plain Aboriginal women and between different Plain Aboriginal tribes. The traditional clothing, production, and wedding of the different Plain Aboriginal tribes presented their lively images and life styles. In the early seventeenth century, Hollanders ruled Taiwan by its religion and colonization, so they tried to reform the naked and abortion of the Plain Aboriginal women and encouraged its people to marry the Plain Aboriginal women. In the late seventeenth century, the Ching Dynasty started managing Taiwan, the Hans brought some changes on the traditional culture of the Plain Aboriginals by its strong population, politics, economy, and culture. Under the interaction with the Hans, the Plain Aboriginal culture gradually showed its changes, that were women began to wear cloth instead of hemp skirt and they had the wedding parade. The eighteenth century is the crucial times that the Plain Aboriginal women replaced the short blouses with long ones and even started to bind their feet and wore the Han shoes. The naked custom of the Plain Aboriginal women didn’t exist anymore and their behavior became conservative. Besides, the Plain Aboriginal men started to join the production and this changed the traditional working roles of male and female. On wedding, this period appeared the engagement and most the Plain Aboriginal women married the Hans. Until the nineteenth century, only Ilan still preserved part of its traditional customs for its late exploitation. Although the images of the Plain Aboriginal women changed from its openness to conservation, and the women accepted the Han culture because of the practical needs instead of unwillingness. To the Plain Aboriginal women, the exotic culture offered them another choice and they kept the high autonomy. The alternations and changes that the Plain Aboriginal women did influenced their tribes in different times. And we can see they played very important roles through this aspect. Besides, as they made any change, they also changed their own culture and made it disappear little by little through the long time.