Oral tradition and the canoe on Takū

IF 0.4 4区 历史学 Q3 ANTHROPOLOGY Journal of the Polynesian Society Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI:10.15286/JPS.127.2.145-176
R. Moyle
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The article examines how Takū position the canoe in their understanding of the past and exploit it to achieve temporary individual prominence within an otherwise egalitarian society. The canoe on Takū exists in two spheres of reference: in the collective memory of two bygone eras preserved largely in fragmented mythology and ancient song lyrics, and as the item of contemporary material culture crucially involved in the economic life of the small community, whose fishing exploits and the skills of its builders and crews fill the lyrics of hundreds of songs in the active repertoire. The dearth of published information on Takū generally and its canoes in particular is offset by the strength of its oral tradition, which recounts and interprets the activities of two canoe types revered but never seen, as well as two more currently in use. As arguably the last location where Polynesian religion is still practiced as the norm, it is also possible to examine the roles of ritual and belief in the canoe’s prominence, in particular the connections between voyagers, builders and ancestor spirits. In unequivocal statements most frequently formalised in song lyrics, creators and users of a canoe can be successful, let alone achieve enduring fame, only if they know and use the appropriate invocations, acknowledging as they do so the social force of precedent. At least in part, the ongoing significance of the canoe, particularly the manner in which it is used, depends on maintenance of such precedent.
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口述传统和竹上的独木舟
本文考察了takuki如何在他们对过去的理解中定位独木舟,并利用它在一个平等的社会中实现暂时的个人突出地位。takuki上的独木舟存在于两个参考领域:在两个过去时代的集体记忆中,主要保存在支离破碎的神话和古老的歌词中;作为当代物质文化的项目,它与这个小社区的经济生活息息相关,他们的捕鱼活动以及建造者和船员的技能填满了数百首歌曲的歌词。关于takuki,特别是其独木舟的出版资料的缺乏被其口头传统的力量所抵消,口头传统叙述和解释了两种受人尊敬但从未见过的独木舟类型的活动,以及目前正在使用的另外两种。作为最后一个波利尼西亚宗教仍然作为规范实践的地方,它也有可能研究独木舟突出的仪式和信仰的作用,特别是航海家,建设者和祖先精神之间的联系。在最常以歌词形式出现的明确声明中,独木舟的创造者和使用者只有知道并使用适当的咒语,并承认先例的社会力量,才能取得成功,更不用说获得持久的名声了。至少在某种程度上,独木舟的持续意义,特别是它的使用方式,取决于维持这样的先例。
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