Food, Local Knowledge and Contemporary Performance: A Case Study of Fishing Village in Badouzi Keelung / 食物、在地知識與當代展演—以基隆八斗子漁村為例

碩士 / 國立臺北藝術大學 / 博物館研究所 / 107 / Food as a discourse has been discussed in various media, such as multi-sensory workshops, performances, ritual festivals and magazines. Interpreting food in non-daily forms involves the public to care about its cultural knowledge, even serves the means to engage community resources. Food presentation and performance in contemporary time therefore educed new methods and meanings, becoming a novel approach in local cultural practices.

Badouzi fishing village, located in the Northeast harbour of Keelung, Taiwan, has been facing industry transformation due to climate change and resource scarcity. The well-known fishing method in Badouzi applying light to attract fish has a long tradition of 200 years. The specific historical fish processing factories were created. Although with changes in functions, the processing factory sites remain in the village. Aside from this, the features of fishing method allow Badouzi to be one of the most prolific catch and important area with the use of lights in night fishing. The field study in this research indicates that the neritic squid in Badouzi fishing village plays the crucial role in local festivals, displays in local museum and in merchandise, which makes Badouzi fishing village a valuable researching case to study about contemporary food performance.

With the methodology of document analysis, participant observation and qualitative interview, this research focuses on the local presentation and its underlying meaning of neritic squid in Keelung's Badouzi fishing village. Three kinds of performative media mentioned above, namely local festivals, local museum and merchandises, present the industry chain of neritic squid in Badouzi, as well as their viewpoints through their displays and contents. First of all, local neritic squid festival shows the viewpoint of local government, emphasizing fishery industry transformation and catch sales. Additionally, local museum presents research results from professionals and scholars about local fishery knowledge to the general public. Finally, merchandise display shows the crossing ideas of merchants, fishermen, and local residents. In conclusion, neritic squid represents diverse voices from local government, local museum, fishermen, merchants and local people, addressing to the issues of local industry transformation in Badouzi fishing village.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/107TNUA0581012
Date January 2019
CreatorsLI, TING-YI, 李庭儀
ContributorsHUANG, JAN-YEN, 黃貞燕
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format137

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