A convocation house (Prrngawan) biblical interpretation and TYCM tribal postcolonial concerns reading Genesis 2:4b~25 with TYCM ordinary tribal readers.

Abstract

The thesis is concerned about the postcolonial context of the minority tribal people,

the Taiwan Yuen-Chu-Min (台灣原住民, TYCM), in Taiwan. The argument of this

thesis includes two parts: Part one provides the background to develop the foundation

for the contextualization of the TYCM tribal people’s colonized experience and

postcolonial discourse in light of their contextual concerns－tribal mother tongue,

tribal texts, and ordinary tribal people; Part two draws connections between these

TYCM tribal people’s postcolonial concerns and biblical interpretation, which is

called “TYCM Tribal Biblical Interpretation”, and practices reading Gen 2:4b-25 with

the subaltern people, TYCM ordinary tribal people, through the Five Step Reading

Process in a group collaborative effort with 14 tribal reading groups.

The project of TYCM Tribal Biblical Interpretation, as practiced through the Five

Step Reading Process, is committed to create decolonization strategies to connect with

the colonized experience of tribal people to help them play their traditional role of the

Prrngawan to facilitate ordinary tribal people to become the “real” and

“flesh-and-blood” readers of their tribal texts and biblical texts through their

mother-tongue to freely participate in constructing and in continuing to restore their

tribal spirituality, worldviews, and appropriation readings to highlight de-colonized

biblical readings in their struggles of their postcolonial context in present day Taiwan.