“出草”：一个猎头习俗的文学社会学旅程

“出草”猎人头，是一种消逝了的先民习俗，并非台湾原住民独有，但对“出草”的书写，却是台湾近代以来活生生的文化载体。“出草”在战后台湾文学中被呈现的面容，或诉说了几百年间原住民族的生存、抗争历史；或寄托着知识者缘少数族群问题进行的社会批判与反省，甚而，对萎弱的现代人格之出路的想象；或在当代意识形态与文化消费的背景下，成为某些主流论述——譬如多元文化主义——的注脚。本文追寻“出草”的文学旅程，一以探求战后知识者响应其时代、探寻思想出路的多重样貌；一以理解台湾的文化生态与现实政治。

Beheading:A Sociological and Literary Journey of Headhunting Custom

Beheading,which is a vanished ancestral headhunting custom,is not unique to Taiwan indigenous peoples.However,writing on Beheading has been a lively Taiwan culture carrier since the modern times.Writing on Beheading in the post-war Taiwanese literature has to some extent presented indigenous peoples' survival and historical struggle during several hundred years;or has to some extent expressed intellectuals' social criticism and reflection on minority ethnic issues and further envisioned their imagination on...