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  TiT Culture: The Tribes of Taiwan
Nowadays sports, symbolic fishing in the open seas, and singing and dancing are observed throughout the villages in a series of celebrations in July and August.
The Puyuma kinship system is ambilineal; while family inheritance goes to the eldest daughter, men and women share in kinship equally.
The village is an independent political unit in Puyuma society, and feuding is common among villages.
www.sinica.edu.tw /tit/culture/0795_TribesOfTaiwan.html   (1850 words)

  
  An Introduction to the Puyuma   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Nawang Puyuma legend states that they were born of bamboo.
Legend has it that because the Nanwang-led Puyuma successfully suppressed the remnants of the disbanded juyigui gang during the Kang Hsi Period of the Ching Dynasty, the emperor honored him with the title "Chief of the Pinan".
The Puyuma has a population of around 10,000 living in Taitung County and the Pinan region in a total of eight communities, called the "Pashefan".
edu.ocac.gov.tw /local/tour_aboriginal/english/a/06.htm   (302 words)

  
  Puyuma people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Puyuma (Chinese: 卑南族; pinyin: Bēinán-zú; POJ: Puyuma-cho̍k, Pi-lâm-cho̍k), also known as the Peinan or Beinan tribe, are one of the tribal groups of the Taiwanese aborigines.
The tribe is generally divided into the Chihpen and Nanwang groups, both resident in Taitung County on the east coast of Taiwan.
The Taiwanese Diva A-mei is an ethnic Puyuma.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Puyuma   (171 words)

  
 Taiwanese aborigine
The Dutch were also in search of gold and endeavored the Puyuma people to lead them to the source of the island's gold.
The Puyuma led the Dutch 80Km to the Kavalan Plain where trace amounts of the mineral could be panned from streambeds.
There is currently a movement by the aborigines to return to their traditional sites and find ways to remain on their lands, continue their culture and speak their languages while earning a living.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ta/Taiwanese_aborigines.html   (3832 words)

  
 Puyuma - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Puyuma (卑南族) is of the tribal groups of the Taiwanese aborigine.
The famous Taiwanese singer Chang Hui-mei is an ethnic Puyuma.
You can find it there under the keyword Puyuma (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyuma)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Puyumaandaction=history).
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Puyuma   (137 words)

  
 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2003017721   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The first comprehensive study of the Puyuma people of Taiwan, this book is based on extensive field research over a period of twenty years.
The Puyuma are today sedentary farmers, but until the last century subsisted on horticulture and hunting.
Consisting of several villages forming a traditional community, the village that forms the focus of this study is called Puyuma (or Nanwang for the Taiwanese administration), whose inhabitants number 1300.
www.loc.gov /catdir/enhancements/fy0651/2003017721-d.html   (226 words)

  
 Puyuma
The Puyuma (; POJ: Pi-lâm cho̍k), also known as the Peinan or Beinan tribe, are one of the tribal groups of the Taiwanese aborigines.
There are estimated to be 8,700 members of the Puyuma in Taiwan, who speak their tribal language as well as Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese.
The Taiwanese Diva A-mei is an ethnic Puyuma.
www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DPuyuma%26type%3Den   (117 words)

  
 Australasia and Oceania
Puyuma shamans in Taiwan, also function as therapists, exorcists, and sometimes soothsayers through their communication with the spirits.
Finally the Puyuma are an aboriginal group living in the southeast area of the island of Taiwan.
When Puyuma shamanism was shaped by hunting, it shared features with Siberian shamanism as observed in the nineteenth century; the current form is closer to the possession cult that characterizes Korean shamanism.
www.sociologyesoscience.com /asia/australasia_oceania.html   (2220 words)

  
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The age-hierarchy training of the Puyuma starts earlier at the age of twelve, however, and is more complex with independent “youth gathering houses” and “adult gathering houses.” Special features of the matrilineal society can be seen in the female shaman ceremonies and ritual activities performed after women’s farm work is finished.
The Puyuma’s traditional religious ceremonies are generally performed by male priests and female shamans.
The Puyuma are far and wide for their betel ceremony and, even though most know believe in Catholic or Protestant Christianity, the traditional and imported beliefs are incorporated into their lives without contradiction or conflict.
www.museum.org.tw /eview08.html   (182 words)

  
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The extended family inheritance goes to the eldest daughter, but the kinship system is ambilineal, and the positions of chieftains and shamans are patrilineal.
The Puyuma society is stratified into noble families and commoners, but inter-class marriage is not prohibited.
The largest basic unit of a Puyuma settlement is called a samawan, which has a center for ancestor worship and a men's meeting house.
members.tripod.com /kelly_yunya/pages/people.htm   (2140 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Aborigines of Taiwan: The Puyuma: From Headhunting to the Modern World: Books: J. Cauquelin
The first comprehensive study of the Puyuma people of Taiwan, this book is based on extensive field research over a period of twenty years.
The Puyuma are today sedentary farmers, but until the last century subsisted on horticulture and hunting.
Consisting of several villages forming a traditional community, the village that forms the focus of this study is called Puyuma (or Nanwang for the Taiwanese administration), whose inhabitants number 1300.
www.amazon.com /Aborigines-Taiwan-Puyuma-Headhunting-Modern/dp/0415314135   (437 words)

  
 CEFC - Séminaire, " Le chamanisme puyuma est-il soluble dans le temps ? De chocs en interdiction, les variations ...
Les chamanes sont élus selon des lignées chamaniques qui chez les Puyuma, reposent sur un système de filiation fondé sur les ancêtres de la famille.
Toutefois, à l'instar d'autres sociétés, les Puyuma vont procéder à une recomposition de leur ritualité.
Les hommes puyuma vont en effet abandonner aux femmes ces pratiques, tout en gardant celles des rites communautaires.
www.cefc.com.hk /taipei/seminaire.php?idsem=26   (870 words)

  
 TIMEasia.com: Asian Heroes - Amei
A-Mei was born in the rugged mountains of eastern Taiwan, as a tribal princess of the Puyuma clan of aborigines.
But historically, the Puyuma have always used song to communicate their deepest feelings, and A-Mei sang the loudest of all, quickly rising from small-time ethnic performer to pop-chart diva for the entire Chinese-speaking world.
She has no Whitney Houston attitude and is content to sit at a fold-up table sharing a meal of fatty pork and home-style bean curd with recording-studio mates.
www.time.com /time/asia/features/heroes/amei.html   (1124 words)

  
 ChinaCultureMall - Online Shopping - Chinese craftworks
The Puyuma (Chinese: 卑南族; Pinyin: Bēinán-zú; POJ: Puyuma-cho̍k, Pi-lâm-cho̍k), also known as the Peinan or Beinan tribe, are one of the tribal groups of the Taiwanese aborigines.
The tribe is generally divided into the Chihpen and Nanwang groups, both resident in Taitung County on the east coast of Taiwan.
The Puyuma speak their tribal language as well as Standard Mandarin and Taiwanese.
www.chinaculturemall.com /Crafts/article.aspx?id=2384   (102 words)

  
 Puyuma
The Puyuma can be divided into two groups based on their different origin legends.
The Puyuma live in Peinan Township of Taitung County, in Chihpen Village, Chienho Village, Lichia Village, Tai-an Village, Pinlang Village, Meinung Village, Chulu Village, Nanwang Village, and Wenchuan Village.
The Beinan were once known as the "eight-village tribesmen." The Puyuma are now concentrated in Taitung County, and the greatest number live in Taitung city, followed by Puyuma Township.
www.tacp.gov.tw /english/INTRO/nine/puyuma/puyuma1.htm   (160 words)

  
 LASEMA - CNRS   (Site not responding. Last check: )
" An ethnolinguistic note on the etymology of "Puyuma"", in Cauquelin Josiane and Elizabeth Zeitoun, eds., Festschrift in honor of Prof.
The Aborigines of Taiwan: The Puyuma: from headhunting to the modern world, Londres/ New York, Routledge/Curzon, 277 p.
Puyuma (Taiwan, E), (eds) Paul Oliver, Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2.II.9.f, 1232-1233 p.
www.vjf.cnrs.fr /Lasema/Fr/Pub/Pays/Taiwan.htm   (1351 words)

  
 Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2003017721
The Puyuma 13 Chapter one - The Puyuma 16 1.
Legend of the division of the land 189 3.
Legends told by the Amis - Kiwit's war against the Puyuma 190 4.
www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip047/2003017721.html   (490 words)

  
 News Article - ATAYAL - The worldwide voice of the aboriginal tribes of Taiwan   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The nation's top official in charge of Aboriginal affairs had the name of his Aboriginal tribe formally registered by his name in government census records yesterday, making him the country's first citizen to be formally identified as a member of a specific Aboriginal tribe.
Under the Japanese colonial government and the KMT administration, all Aboriginal people in Taiwan were registered in the official household register only as "Aborigines," without identifying the names of their specific Aboriginal races, according to Chen.
Chen, who was a Taitung county chief for eight years before becoming CAA chairman, is a member of the Puyuma race, whose population of about 10,000 people mainly resides in the southern part of Taitung County.
www.atayal.org /NewsView.asp?catID=6   (428 words)

  
 Routledge
Based on extensive field research over a period of twenty years, this is the first comprehensive study of the Puyuma people of Taiwan.
The Puyuma belong to the Austronesian peoples, which today number less than 370,000.
In Taiwan, they are the least known of the aboriginal groups, numbering only 6000, and inhabiting the Southeastern province of Taitung.
www.routledge.com /shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=&isbn=9780415314138&parent_id=&pc=/shopping_cart/search/search.asp?search=phenomenology   (235 words)

  
 Taipei Times - archives   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The most outstanding member of the Puyuma people in recent times, Mateli (馬智禮) was both intelligent and brave as a leader.
Despite the fact that he was Chinese, Mateli, who had a brilliant mind and was a diligent student, quickly immersed himself in Puyuma culture and traditions.
His efforts led to a treaty between the Puyuma and the Bunong, which indirectly put an end to the conflict between the Bunong and the Japanese government.
www.taipeitimes.com /News/taiwan/archives/2002/10/20/176369/print   (731 words)

  
 The "Voice of Puyuma" speaks up
amingad is an aboriginal singer from the Puyuma tribe.
For her first album, "Voice of Puyuma," released in late 1999, she received a Golden Melody Award for Best New Artist.
Her second album "Wild Fire, Spring Wind" was released in September, 2001 and earned her a Golden Melody Award nomination for Best Dialect (Non-Mandarin Language) Female Vocalist.
www.taiwanfun.com /music/0207/0207VoiceofPuyuma.htm   (704 words)

  
 puyuma
The Puyuma tribesmen, with a population of about 62,110, are scattered in an area surrounding Taitung City.
The Puyuma were the first to be influenced by China and have the highest degree of culture of all the tribes.
The Puyuma have an exceptionally large number of incantation songs.
www-camil.music.uiuc.edu /musedex/taiwan/tai-aborigines/puyuma.html   (236 words)

  
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Point mutation in the beta sheet of the HLA-C alpha2 domain generates a novel HLA-C allele, HLA-Cw*08012, in a Puyuma Aboriginal individual in Taiwan.
This novel allele, HLA-Cw*08012, was found in an Aboriginal individual from the Puyuma tribe in the southern part of Taiwan.
This new allele was detected in a few individuals of the Puyuma tribe in Taiwan, but has not yet been observed in other populations in Taiwan.
cmbi.bjmu.edu.cn /ChinaPaper/details.asp?PubMedID=12472664   (154 words)

  
 :: Samingad ::
, whose name in her native Puyuma means “without equal,” was born in Tai-Dong County’s Puyuma Township to a family with a rich musical tradition.
Her grandparents and many of her relatives are important figures in keeping traditional Puyuma music alive through emceeing at the tribe’s many social functions and teaching the tribe’s music to their children.
Her music draws much of its inspiration from the Gospels, as well as from tales of the tribe’s former agricultural and hunting lifestyle, and from the complex emotions triggered by Puyuma’s struggles in Taiwan’s contemporary society.
www.tcmusic.com.tw /artist/samingad/Index.htm   (181 words)

  
 優良出版品選介:小蕃薯變大肚婆(Transforming from Small Sweet Potatoes Big Bellies)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
By the elders' legends, the forbears of the “puyuma” came from the southern islands where people called themselves “ irur” which means “fish” in their native language.
Since the discarded dirt was considerably plenty, it became the current Central Mountain Range of Taiwan and the hunting ground of the males of the “puyuma”.
The first adults association “paLakwan” of “Puyuma” was activated and was named as “paTapang”.
www.tpec.org.tw /abs/010/010-013.htm   (433 words)

  
 【TAITUNG TOURISM】
Monkey ritual is a ceremony to celebrate the adulthood of the male teenagers.
After dancing and singing in the ceremony, the Puyuma teenagers use spears to stab at the monkeys to death.
Grand hunting festival is to pray for reap of hunting and to show the braveness of the Puyuma warriors.
tour.taitung.gov.tw /english/cultureart/festivals2.asp   (472 words)

  
 When Likavong Was Young......Exploring the development of Puyuma and Likavong.
When Likavong Was Young......Exploring the development of Puyuma and Likavong.
The manifestation in tribal culture and its transitions of Puyuma
Police Station was established in 1905, Rika Public School was established in May of the same year.
gsh.taiwanschoolnet.org /gsh2003/2868/one/history.htm   (192 words)

  
 untitled   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Además de la música, el talentoso puyuma disfruta de la pesca y la cacería, así como de la pintura, escultura, caligrafía y la creación de artesanías.
Las canciones puyuma son líricas y hablan sobre el orgullo de la tribu.
El canto prevalece entre los miembros de la tribu puyuma, ya sea durante las rutinas diarias o en los festivales anuales, mientras que el canto y la antifonía son estilos típicos.
www.gio.gov.tw /info/noticia97/2000/19/p2.htm   (1581 words)

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