本文從當地人的觀點出發，探討「傳統祭儀」如何曾是一種反思、組織與 管理日常生活的模式。人們透過儀式與自然界和超自然界建立想像的聯結，形 構具有主權且資源共享的部落社會。隨著外來的衝擊，「傳統祭儀」逐漸轉變成 為了當代政治目的而被創新、想像的建構，過程中涉及人群分類與新的社會關 係之整合。文中以2002年復名成功的噶瑪蘭族為例，分析在1987年臺灣解嚴 前後，國家面臨政治轉型與認同重構的情境中，花蓮新社部落的族人，如何透 過多元新創的qataban豐年節活動，作為其族群復名運動的反思屈轉策略，以 避免與國家族群融合政治正面衝突。他們藉由qataban的當代展演中，所具有 的戲劇效果及象徵符號，來呼應、對抗及想像「我群」，進而對內斡旋次群體間 的差異與衝突，創造新的社會關係聯結；同時對外透過政府、傳播及學界的參 與互看，建立與傳統斷裂的、國家化的族群想像，向政府宣稱及協商其族群之 「存在」。

This paper will examine how “traditional rituals” were once models for reflecting on, organizing and managing daily life, from the native’s point of view. Through rituals, people built an imagined link with the natural and supernatural world, forming a tribal society that was autonomous and in which resources were shared. Under the impact of external influences, traditional rituals gradually became innovated and imagined constructs with contemporary political objectives； the process involving group classification and integration of new social relationship into the changing state.
Taking the Kavalan people as an example, who were successfully recognized as an ethnic group by the government in 2002. As a case study, this paper will analyze how, after martial law was lifted in Taiwan in 1987, against the background of political liberalization and reconstruction of national identity, the people of Sinshe village in Hualien County used various innovative qataban activities (transforming it from the headhunting ritual into the harvest festival) as a reflexive strategy for the group’s name restoration movement to avoid a direct conflict with national assimilation politics. Through the dramatic effects and symbolism of the contemporary performance of the qataban, they echoed, opposed and imagined the “we group” and then created new social relationships in the process of negotiating differences and conflict between internal sub-groups. At the same time, through the interactive participation of government, media and academia, this nationalized ethnic group, severed from tradition, was imagined and the group’s “existence” was announced to, and negotiated with, the government.