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The thesis is a comparative study on the space of traditional
villages by investigating Kinmen and Penghu villages with the
relation of immigration before 1911, and then asks why they were
presented into two different types of formation. Basically, we
review the experiences of studying traditional villages from
geography, ethnology and history, and then introduce them into
the discussion of architecture. That is to say, it tries to
start from a kind of cross-discipline, to then establish a whole
viewpoint of studying village from architecture. Therefore,
through the integration of disciplines, the analysis uses four
approaches to study villages: ecological approach to sitting,
socio-economic approach to living, political and social approach
to rural administrativeorganization; and approach to the
organization of religious activity, so as to compare with
differences respectively between Kinmen and Penghu villages.
Conclusively, our studies point out that most of Penghu villages
were composed of many lineages, but the social formation of
Kinmen village was only constructed by a big one lineage. Due to
interrelation among natural environment and resource, society,
politics, economic and religion, lineage organization became the
center of social operation within Kinmen villages, but for
Penghu village society, it would rather be the religious
organization. Thus, the difference between socio-cultural
contexts, both village societies represented their spatial types
respectively, the ancestral shrine was a center within the space
of a Kinmen village, but the public temple for a Penghu village.
Through then, both of village spaces were formed, and then,
constructed the spatial relation with other spaces within a
village. Finally, we can understand why the formation of Penghu
villages did not follow that of Kinmen village but rather toward
a kind of development into an aborigionalized society, hence,
public temple was a main index of forming Penghu village spaces.
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