Return of Ancestral Spirits Re-Energizes Tafalong Community
in Taiwan Panorama Magazine (May 2013, p.106-113)
In a documentary film directed by anthropologist Hu Tai-li, young Amis of the Tafalong community strive to bring back ancestral spirits and reconstruct a family home that had special ceremonial importance. But since traditional ceremonies and ancestor worship have long been marginalized in the tribe, can those ancestral spirits really come home? |