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	Bunun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bunun (布農) is one of the twenty Taiwanese aborigine tribes.
		The second demanded that the Bunun conduct rituals throughout their lives honoring the spirits of heaven and earth.
		So the Bunun were able to invent their own "calendar" and it can be said that they are Taiwan's only indigenous tribe to use a form of "writing" to record events.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bunun (262 words)

	Music of Taiwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Amis, Bunun, Paiwan, Rukai and Tsou are known for their polyphonic vocals, of which each has a unique variety.
		The Bunun's original home was on Taiwan's west coast, in the central and northern plains, but some have more recently settled in the area around Taitung and Hualien.
		The Bunun Cultural and Educational Foundation, founded in 1995, was the first organization established to help promote and sustain Taiwanese aboriginal culture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Taiwan (895 words)

	World Music Central - Music of the Bunun, Taiwanese Aboriginals
		The Bunun is an indigenous tribe from Taiwan.
		Currently the Bunun in Taitung are concentrated in Haituan and Yenping, inhabiting high and cold mountain regions suitable for growing millet, their main staple.
		The Bunun Cultural and Educational Foundation provides services in children education, after-school counseling for teenagers, educational camp meetings with university students, caring of the handicapped and seniors, and the preservation of culture and agriculture.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php?story=20031128184137122 (750 words)

	Bunun Definition / Bunun Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bunun is the ballads inherited from ancient period.
		Bunun is a farming tribe that occasionally does hunting and gathering.
		Bunun is the name of the principal aboriginal tribe in Yushan National Park.
	www.elresearch.com /Bunun (98 words)

	bunun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Bunun women wrapped a red or fl kerchief around their heads, and wore a long garment with narrow sleeves and a long skirt.
		The Bunun made their dwellings from slate, wood, thatch, and the bark of vines.
		Slate was the chief material used by the northern Bunun, and was used to build the walls, roof, and pavement floor; only the beams and pillars were made of wood.
	et.sdsu.edu /YCheng/final/bunun.htm (203 words)

	Tsou, Bunun tribes hold festival in Chashan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The theme of the festival was the native culture of the Tsou and Bunun tribes.
		Both the Tsou and the Bunun burial rituals included cases where relatives are interred inside the family home.
		Bunun people often carve men holding hunting rifles and sun patterns, which represent care for the land.
	publish.gio.gov.tw /FCJ/past/02120651.html (724 words)

	The musical instruments of Bunun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bunun makes use of the difference in length and thickness of durdurs, to produce sound by hammering at slates or rocks of houses, this is called the durdur music.
		The Bunun way of playing a hong-hong is firstly hold the opposite site of the joining end of a hong-hong with the left thumb and the index finger (there are also people who roll the strap up their left fingers).
		The lah lah of Bunun is made of 10 pieces of pig bald bones (used to be boar bones in the past), with holes bored at the endmost part of the bones, and then string them up with rattan.
	gsh.taiwanschoolnet.org /gsh2004/3369/profile8.html (1027 words)

	Bunun hold ceremonies, games in Taitung County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		embers of the Bunun tribe held "manaqtainga" ceremonies and various traditional arts and skills contests on Sunday in Yungkang and Hungye, Taitung County.
		Legend has it that the Bunun Tribe was known for its hunting abilities from the earliest times.
		Other traditional skills of the Bunun include sawing wood, splitting wood, climbing to the highest point on a poll, carrying large loads of things in baskets, and husking rice.
	www.taiwanheadlines.org /20030428/20030428s6.html (292 words)

	An Introduction to the Bunun
		The Bunun, with a population of about 40,000 members, can be found south of Puli and east of the Central Mountain Range.
		The Bunun are currently comprised of five major communes, all located in Nantou, including the Chuo, Chun, Ka, Dan, and Man. In addition to these, historical records show another commune, called the Lan that has already been assimilated.
		There are three important positions in Bunun tribes, including a priest, responsible for carrying out agricultural rites; another individual in charge of the "Ear Shooting Ceremony", and the third that functions as political and military leader.
	edu.ocac.gov.tw /local/tour_aboriginal/english/a/03.htm (429 words)

	bunun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The scale of the Bunun consists, fundamentally, of natural overtones with the Fanfare melody of do, mi, sol, do.
		The microtone around mi is a special feature not only of the Bunun but also of all the tribes of Kan san tsu.
		The most peculiar song of the Bunun is Pasibutbut, a song of the millet harvest festival in the chromatic style.
	www-camil.music.uiuc.edu /musedex/taiwan/tai-aborigines/bunun.html (153 words)

	Rolling Rains Report:: The Bunun Aboriginal People - Taitung, Taiwan
		Later, a festival of circle dances culminated in the eight-part harmony of a Bunun ritual.
		Even more surprising was to discover that the founder and president of the Bunun Aboriginal Foundation draws from his own post-polio experience to make their hotels, hot springs, theater, and shops accessible.
		Here is Reverend White, founder of the Bunun Aboriginal Foundation posing with me following a presentation by the young people who he encourages to go out for an education but return to their homeland.
	www.rollingrains.com /archives/000483.html (278 words)

	Atlas: A Dream of Civil Society Renovation---Economic development and Self-identification by Lu-Yi Hsieh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bunun Culture and Educational Foundation (Bunun Foundation) is the first non-profit organization established by Taiwan aborigines in 1995.
		Bunun foundation was located in a mountain village of Eastern part of Taiwan, where modernization is in slow process.
		Bunun Foundation is aimed to promote education, to create working opportunity and to secure long-term employment for the aboriginal people.
	atlas-conferences.com /cgi-bin/abstract/camk-10 (488 words)

	World Music Central - David Darling Records with the Wulu Bunun
		Although the language and culture of Taiwan’s indigenous people — including traditional Bunun methods of harmonizing — is rapidly disappearing from the impact of modernization and the strong influence of a primarily Han Chinese culture, because of Wulu’s relative isolation it is currently the most unadulterated of all the Bunun villages.
		With only sixty households in the village, Wulu is home to the most traditional styles of Bunun singing, and before this project the Wulu Bunun had never heard their voices accompanied by an instrument.
		At the core of this extraordinary collaboration is the ancient Bunun tradition of polyphonic choral singing.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php?story=20040531150231427 (563 words)

	eTaiwanNews.com/Bunun tribe choir to perform for president (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The choir originates from a remote Bunun tribe village in the mountains in Hualien County.
		In the Bunun dialect, the village is called Tavila, meaning "white egret." During the Japanese colonial period, however, the government renamed the village "Taiping" based on the Bunun dialect name, and the official name Taiping has remained to this day.
		The music to be performed - called pasibutbut in the Bunun dialect - for President Chen is traditionally sung during the sorghum harvest.
	www.etaiwannews.com /Taiwan/2002/12/25/1040785573.htm (821 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		For Taiwan's Bunun indigenous group, Yushan is more than a national park -- it's the sacred birthplace of their ancestors and a hunting ground that's provided their livelihood for millennia.
		The occupying soldiers needed a footpath that was easier for their garrisons to traverse than the ancient ones used by the local Bunun and Tsao populations.
		Hanitu is the Bunun word that refers to the spirit found in all animals, plants and rocks and is the core of Bunun belief.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/feat/archives/2002/11/03/178130 (1793 words)

	World Music Network feature: David Darling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In her long-term dedication to teaching Bunun children to speak and sing in their mother tongue, I see a certain resolve that is not uncommon among the Bunun people.
		And it is this resolve that has allowed the Bununs, who have lived in Taiwan for thousands of years, to pass their legends down from generation to generation and to turn these legends into folk songs.
		These songs contain the proud history of the Bunun – not only do we strive to preserve that history, but we also attempt to give this history an opportunity to ferment, to meld with other elements, and to be reborn.
	www.worldmusic.net /home/features/darling.html (1004 words)

	Bunun choir to perform for president (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The choir originates from a remote Bunun village in the mountains of Hualien County.
		In the Bunun language, the village is called Tavila, meaning "white egret." During the Japanese colonial period, however, the government renamed the village "Taiping" based on the Bunun name, and the official name Taiping has remained to this day.
		The music to be performed -- called pasibutbut in the Bunun dialect -- for President Chen is traditionally sung during the sorghum harvest.
	www.taiwanheadlines.gov.tw /20021225/20021225s1.html (784 words)

	TiT Culture: The Tribes of Taiwan
		Noted traits that were common to these groups included tattooing (except among the Yami and Bunun), pantheism, shamanism, and head-hunting (except among the Yami).
		The Bunun live in the mountainous regions of central Taiwan.
		They are patrilineal, have strong family ties, and practice the extraction of certain front teeth as a sign of social identity as well as adulthood.
	www.sinica.edu.tw /tit/culture/0795_TribesOfTaiwan.html (1850 words)

	The Tribes - ATAYAL - The worldwide voice of the aboriginal tribes of Taiwan
		The Atayal are also well-known for their abilities in singing and dancing.
		BUNUN - This tribe is distributed throughout the areas of Central Mountain Chain in Taiwan, mostly at the altitude of 1,000 to 2,000 meters.
		The total Bunun population numbers approximately thirty-seven thousand (37,000).
	www.atayal.org /Tribes.asp (1383 words)

	Medialunchbox - Music : Mudanin Kata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This one-of-a-kind collaboration matches field recordings of the Wulu Bunun's ancient a capella songs with the modern ambient leaning music of cellist David Darling, who took the present-day field recordings and added musical accompaniment to the songs for the first time.
		Sometimes Darling structuring the songs, which may only have a single verse, adding instrumental breaks, but on the above song he comes in at the top, finishing off the song in the same circular polyphony with which it was started.
		The music of the Wulu Bunun is valuable in itself but may be less accessible to Western ears.
	www.medialunchbox.com /ItemId/B00022MBNA (296 words)

	World Music Network feature: David Darling lyrics
		This song is commonly sung in the everyday lives of the Bunun people, with the adults and children singing the verses to one another as a form of call and response.
		In the traditional lives of the Bunun people, this song has a profound meaning, and those who are not carrying heavy loads on their backs are not allowed to sing it.
		For women to sing it is taboo, and Bunun tradition suggests that this would be to the detriment of the harvest.
	www.worldmusic.net /home/features/darlinglyrics.html (1615 words)

	Product View (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Among them are the Bunun, who live in mountain valleys surrounded by forests.
		Their polyphonic singing is utterly extraordinary; so much that when the academic world “discovered” it, ethnomusicology had to discard previously-held notions of how music had developed.
		Traditionally the Bunun have sung accompanied only by the natural sounds around them, often whilst engaged in the activity a particular song depicts.
	oxfamtrading.org.au /shop/prodview.asp?iprodgrpid=1451 (173 words)

	Tower Records - Mudanin Kata * - David Darling/The Wulu Bunun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Wulu Bunun consist of both children and adults, and their unusual choral sound may remind some Western listeners of gospel, field hollers, and campfire sing-alongs.
		Darling's cello joins the Wulu Bunun in an unobtrusive manner, adding bowed backing or simple, repeating figures, or arpeggios in a way that blends naturally with the group's performance.
		The performances were captured in a valley near Bunun, so the recordings have a wide, open-air feel to them that perfectly complements the organic, soul-stirring music.
	www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=2997537 (281 words)

	BUNUN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Spoken in the east central plain, south of the Seediq (Taroko), Taiwan.
		masd'ag mad'ami tu mapin-uka mas itu duma bunun tu inulivaan.
		Note: (') following a letter means there is a macron in the center of the letter.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/JPN-bunun.html (54 words)

	alphanumb's User Page - Last.fm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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	www.last.fm /user/alphanumb (194 words)

	Bunun - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The word Bunun is also used to describe language spoken by the Bunun people.
		The Bunun language is usually subdivided in five dialects: Ish-bukun, Takbunuadh, Takevatan, Takebaka and Taketuduh.
		Ishbukun, the dominant dialect, is mainly spoken in the south of Taiwan.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Bunun (196 words)

	David Darling & the Wulu Bunun / RootsWorld Recording Review
		This partnership between experimental cellist David Darling and the singers of the Wulu Bunun people of Taiwan errs on the collaborative side, and the partnership often feels forced.
		The Wulu Bunun is a small ethnic group that lives in the southeastern portion of Taiwan's Central Mountain Range.
		All audio content is the property of the artists and record labels and is used by permission.
	www.rootsworld.com /reviews/darlingwu.shtml (505 words)

	David Darling & The Wulu Bunun + The Planet + 21/06/2004
		The island's "aborigines" are the northernmost Austronesian peoples, among whom are the Bunun.
		The Bunun have an extraordinary polyphonic song tradition, often singing whilst engaged in the activity a particular song depicts.
		The Bunun are one of Taiwan's several non-Chinese indigenous peoples.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/music/planet/stories/s1124149.htm (1382 words)

	Links - ATAYAL - A non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of indigenous culture of Taiwan
		Atayal Facial Tattoo Culture Studio - A photography studio capturing the beauty and tattoo culture of the Atayal tribe of Taiwan.
		Bunun Home Page - A web site dedicated to the Bunun aborigine tribe of Taiwan.
		Provided by the Bunun Culture and Education Foundation.
	www.atayal.org /Links.asp (614 words)

	crankycrowspring04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In fact, the Wulu Bunun people were astonished to hear their a cappella songs embellished with instrumentation because this had never been done in the past.
		The language and culture of the Bunun people is disappearing at a rapid rate due to modernization and the Han Chinese culture which has made huge impact, including laws that forbid hunting and the staple crop millet being replaced by rice.
		With a population over 300 people, here's hoping the indigenous people can preserve their rituals, music and culture for future generations of Bunun people as well as, those of us who enjoy exploring other cultures.
	www.geocities.com /pherlevi/crankycrowspring04.html (9524 words)

	Aborigines protest plan to divert water from Bunun villages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Aborigines protest plan to divert water from Bunun villages
		Le Tuan, a Bunun clergyman in Taoyuan township, told the Taipei Times that the agency's director-general had missed the point of the demonstration.
		We stressed that we don't want the construction because we want to leave a sustainable future for future generations," Le Tuan said.
	www.taiwanheadlines.com /20040625/20040625s2.html (344 words)

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