Michael Rudolph, Ritual Performances as Authenticating Practices: Cultural representations of Taiwan’s aborigines in times of political changes

Abstract

Michael Rudolph, Ritual Performances as Authenticating Practices: Cultural representations of Taiwan’s aborigines in times of political changes, Berlin, LIT Verlag, “Performanzen,” vol. 14, 2008, bibliogr., index. This volume constitutes an original contribution to Taiwan studies: it situates an examination of contemporary aboriginal rituals within the transformation of the Taiwanese political, cultural, and social context. Such an approach proceeds from the conviction that rituals are not li...