Cultural Ecosystem of the Seediq’s Traditional Weaving Techniques—A Comparison of the Learning Differences Between Urban and Indigenous Communities
Abstract
:1. Background
1.1. Research Motives
1.2. Research Purpose
2. Seediq Weaving
2.1. Traditional Life and Weaving of Seediq
2.1.1. Ancestral Paradigm
2.1.2. Weaving Materials and Tools Closely Related to the Natural Environment
2.1.3. A Piece of Cloth Can Only Be Completed After Complicated Procedures
2.1.4. “Weaving”—Mission and Pilgrimage of Females
2.2. Social Transformation Changes the Meaning of Weaving: From Necessity to a Cultural Product
2.3. Government Involvement: Safeguarding Cultural Heritage through Learning Programs
3. Field Sites and Subjects
3.1. Field Sites
3.2. Research Method
3.3. Weaving Courses in Research Sites
3.3.1. Weaving Course in Urban Community
3.3.2. Weaving Course in Indigenous Community
3.3.3. Interaction Between Urban Community and Indigenous Community
4. Results Analysis
4.1. Differences in Learning Experience between Urban and Indigenous Communities
4.1.1. Different Learning Habits: Constructive Learning and Implicit Learning
4.1.2. Learning Feelings: “Deliberate” Learning and the Reproduction of “Old Values”
4.2. Cultural Ecosystem of the Seediq Traditional Weaving Techniques
4.2.1. Traditional Weaving that Presents a Complete Cultural Ecosystem
4.2.2. Incompleteness of Indigenous Weaving Cultural Ecosystem after the Commercialization of Culture
4.2.3. Dual-Community Courses Attempting to Bring the Traditional Cultural Ecosystem Closer
4.2.4. Analysis of Cultural Ecosystem of Two Communities and Their Linkages
5. Conclusions
5.1. Significant Differences in Weaving Learning Between Urban and Indigenous Communities
5.2. The Two Communities Have Their Own Functions and Roles in Rebuilding Cultural Ecosystem
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Urban Community | Indigenous Community | |
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1.Course site | Taichung City, with population of 2.8 million | Nanfeng Seediq Tribe in Ren’ai Township, Nantou County, with population of 1545 |
2. Course duration | 2014–2017, five rounds of course within four years, 80–100 h for each round | 2017–2018, two rounds of course within four years, 80 h for each round |
3.Number of trainees | 10 | 8 |
4.Learning motivation | Interest in crafts | Needs for dancing performance |
5.Techniques to learn | Plainweave, weft pick, diamond weave, twill weave and warp pick, Puniri | Plain weave, weft pick |
6.Site features | Students take courses in “formal” institutional units, so they separate the study from daily life. | When courses are given in a tribal church, trainees can balance household chores, farming and weaving. |
Urban Community | Indigenous Community | |
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(1) Habits of learning | Constructive learning | Tacit learning |
(2) Significance of learning | Deliberate learning because of strangeness and curiosity. | Reappearance of “old values”, remaining memory of the elders’ weaving naturally generates cultural elements. |
(3) Awareness of learning | Fond of the high autonomy and freedom of the ground loom, and the creation of new patterns; some trainees learn about amicable human-nature relationship from the ground loom. | Various connections with culture and memory, such as better proficiency to weave more cloth for children, families and friends. |
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Hwang, S.-H.; Huang, H.-M. Cultural Ecosystem of the Seediq’s Traditional Weaving Techniques—A Comparison of the Learning Differences Between Urban and Indigenous Communities. Sustainability 2019, 11, 1519. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11061519
Hwang S-H, Huang H-M. Cultural Ecosystem of the Seediq’s Traditional Weaving Techniques—A Comparison of the Learning Differences Between Urban and Indigenous Communities. Sustainability. 2019; 11(6):1519. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11061519
Chicago/Turabian StyleHwang, Shyh-Huei, and Hsiu-Mei Huang. 2019. "Cultural Ecosystem of the Seediq’s Traditional Weaving Techniques—A Comparison of the Learning Differences Between Urban and Indigenous Communities" Sustainability 11, no. 6: 1519. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11061519
APA StyleHwang, S. -H., & Huang, H. -M. (2019). Cultural Ecosystem of the Seediq’s Traditional Weaving Techniques—A Comparison of the Learning Differences Between Urban and Indigenous Communities. Sustainability, 11(6), 1519. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11061519