Les représentations de la panthère nébuleuse à Taïwan : usages et résilience dans les débats contemporains

This article considers the relationship between the Paiwan tribe in Taiwan and the clouded leopard. This research studies the headdresses and traditional clothes made from the skin and teeth of this leopard for the Paiwan community chief and his family. These ornaments give to the person wearing the...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:2f98ff64be404f339d3cc694505750602021-12-02T11:35:15ZLes représentations de la panthère nébuleuse à Taïwan : usages et résilience dans les débats contemporains1620-32242262-836310.4000/moussons.8263https://doaj.org/article/2f98ff64be404f339d3cc694505750602021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/moussons/8263https://doaj.org/toc/1620-3224https://doaj.org/toc/2262-8363This article considers the relationship between the Paiwan tribe in Taiwan and the clouded leopard. This research studies the headdresses and traditional clothes made from the skin and teeth of this leopard for the Paiwan community chief and his family. These ornaments give to the person wearing them some prestige as an emblem of power related to the clouded leopard seen as a sacred animal. Presently, while the leopards are extinct since few decades, Taiwan think about reintroducing it in the southern part of Taiwan mountain range, between Taitung and Pintung counties. Though, in this aim, it seems necessary to understood the interaction between the Paiwan tribe and this animal. The symbolic importance of this animal for the Paiwan have change over time and with the social and environmental changes. The objects made from clouded leopard have been modified by the disappearing of the feline and the meaning associated to them have also changed. The debate about a possible reintroduction of this feline induces many reactions and questioning and pushes to wonder about the effect of the discourse environmental conservationist on the local level.Agathe LemaitreUniversité de Provencearticleclouded leopardPaiwanextinctionprecious goodsscientific discoursesHistory of AsiaDS1-937Social SciencesHENFRMoussons, Vol 38, Pp 203-227 (2021)
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Agathe Lemaitre
Les représentations de la panthère nébuleuse à Taïwan : usages et résilience dans les débats contemporains
description This article considers the relationship between the Paiwan tribe in Taiwan and the clouded leopard. This research studies the headdresses and traditional clothes made from the skin and teeth of this leopard for the Paiwan community chief and his family. These ornaments give to the person wearing them some prestige as an emblem of power related to the clouded leopard seen as a sacred animal. Presently, while the leopards are extinct since few decades, Taiwan think about reintroducing it in the southern part of Taiwan mountain range, between Taitung and Pintung counties. Though, in this aim, it seems necessary to understood the interaction between the Paiwan tribe and this animal. The symbolic importance of this animal for the Paiwan have change over time and with the social and environmental changes. The objects made from clouded leopard have been modified by the disappearing of the feline and the meaning associated to them have also changed. The debate about a possible reintroduction of this feline induces many reactions and questioning and pushes to wonder about the effect of the discourse environmental conservationist on the local level.
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title Les représentations de la panthère nébuleuse à Taïwan : usages et résilience dans les débats contemporains
title_short Les représentations de la panthère nébuleuse à Taïwan : usages et résilience dans les débats contemporains
title_full Les représentations de la panthère nébuleuse à Taïwan : usages et résilience dans les débats contemporains
title_fullStr Les représentations de la panthère nébuleuse à Taïwan : usages et résilience dans les débats contemporains
title_full_unstemmed Les représentations de la panthère nébuleuse à Taïwan : usages et résilience dans les débats contemporains
title_sort les représentations de la panthère nébuleuse à taïwan : usages et résilience dans les débats contemporains
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