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行政院國家科學委員會專題研究計畫成果報告

蘭嶼雅美族地誌資料庫

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文化地理中的地緣神話研究

Topographic Database and Geo-Mythological Landscape in Pongso no Tao, Lanyu

計畫類別：一般型計畫（個別型）

計畫編號：NSC 91-2412-H-001-033

執行期限：91年8月01日至92年7月31日

計畫主持人：余光弘

處理方式：可立即對外提供參考

執行單位：中央研究院民族學研究所

中華民國九十二年七月三十日

中文摘要

雅美地誌故事再現了雅美祖先如何在歷代遷移中，使蘭嶼島由無名島轉變為遍佈雅美人與地名的人之島Pongso no Tao。歸結區域命名法則的運用，以發展中的各階段聚落名為例，則不外「地從生態」、「地從形象」與「人地相關」三項原則。其中「人地相關」的地名例證，特別是雅美祖先在遷移中期的「人地共名現象」，則見證了人文活動深刻塑造地景區域特質的過程。

「人地共名」做為一種中介於土地與社會之間的儀禮，其功能顯然關聯於雅美文化核心理念中的「空間運勢」與「言語靈力」信仰，意在區域內建構新認同，用以協調土地上的先佔法則與外來階序的矛盾衝突，進而能使二者互相通透，成為一種更寬闊的道德邏輯。至於在象徵意義的層面：人地共名之際「人地依從象徵靈力卜運」，有助於不同群體跨越人地互動的階層而調整世界觀，甚至能呼應雅美「命名傳統」中的新生／識別／占卜意象。土地也因此成為「實踐型占卜」的操作實體：既是「複雜記號」的展演之所，又是多重力量「遭逢的場域」。由於表徵與意義間的複雜社會運作，土地一如身體與飛魚都不可能畫成一張一目瞭然的位置分佈圖與季節行事曆來閱讀。 

關鍵詞: 蘭嶼、雅美族、地誌、人地共名、空間運勢、言語靈力、占卜

英文摘要

Abstract

 Topographic Database and Geo-Mythological Locality in Pongso no Tao, Lanyu

 The narratives of Yami topography represent how the ancestors have made Lanyu island from an unknown space into a well-naming place, which becomes wide-distributed by Yami human groups during the historic migration. To analyze the principles of landscape naming, using cases of naming the past developing villages, there are three keystone rules including place naming according ecology, according geography as well as according human names. Especially the last principle of place naming according human names demonstrates that the human action deeply shape the quality and characteristic of Yami landscape, such as the phenomena of human-land name sharing in the Yami mid-migratory stage.

 The social function of human-land name sharing, as a rite to mediate land and society, associates with the Yami beliefs of spatial fortune and oral magic in their cultural ideology. This land-group bounding rite could construct a new identity to solve conflicts between pre-occupant landholders and outside dominant hierarchy, as well as to penetrate conflicts in order to develop a broader moral logic.

In the symbolic dimension, the name sharing rites can be an augur determined by land magic. It helps different social groups cross stratum of land-human interaction through changing vision of worldview. In addition, the cultural core of name sharing rites responds to the meaning of human naming, in terms of new-birth, self identification and magic augur. Land as a medium of practical augur can not only be where complex sign displays, but also a site that multiplicity encounters. Since the complicated social working between reality and symbols, the landscape, human body and flying fish in Yami society cannot become a simple map or calendar to read.

 Keywords: Lanyu, Yami, topography, human-land name sharing, spatial fortune, oral magic, augur