دانلود کتاب اسطوره‌های انسان‌شناسی اولیه فورموسان، پیدایش و آفرینش انسان

In 1882, John Dodd, the founder of Formosa Oolong Tea Company, published A Few Ideas on the Probable Origin of the Hill Tribes of Formosa. In that article Dodd refers to the drift origin motif which claims that the ancestors of Taiwan’s aboriginals drifted to Taiwan from locations overseas: On questioning the aborigines of the hills, as to where they originally came from, they invariably pointed Southwards, remarking that the place was distant very many “sun-go-downs,” meaning many days’ journey Southward. (Dodd, 1882, p. 75)
In the absence of longstanding traditional orthographical records, the Austronesian tribes that inhabit the island of Taiwan have relied on the transmission of oral literatures for the preservation of historical events since the dawn of time. The earliest historical events that are still recited by tribal elders relate to the origins of the gods and first ancestors of mankind. This monograph anthologizes the Formosan anthropogonic myths from all of Taiwan’s Austronesian tribes. In excess of 250 origin texts, sourced from dozens of linguistic, anthropological, historical and mythological corpora as well as other publications have been collated and analyzed rendering the present literary survey far more comprehensive than any prior study on this subject. Over 100 Formosan myths, many of which were never previously available in English, have been translated for the present study.