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This study aims to picture the motivation, behavior, and cultural meaning of hunting activities in Tafalong, an Amis community in Hualien, Taiwan. Through participation and interview, it discusses various dimensions of hunting histories, rituals, legends, and geographic life. By means of asking how hunting culture affects on hunters? the research analyzes the social relationship and cultural meaning that motivate hunters go for hunting. Drawing on this "hunting tradition," this study tends to answer the social motives, cultural force and meaning of hunting. This research concludes that elder hunters of Tafalong play an important role in the culture who generate the knowledge, hunting skills, and challenges that they have experienced. By utilizing the surrounding environment and different material, hunters in Tafalong develop fully innovation capacity in hunting weapons. Those hunters developed a complex and sophisticated relationship with the nature. The hunting activities contained various tests such as tribal ceremonies, dreams vision from ancestors, partnerships during hunting and fear in danger which need fully knowledge from elderly or ancestors to cover. In fear of gradually forgetting the stories related to hunting culture, it is needed for aboriginals back to the mountain to refamiliarize themselves.
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