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第十章: 迫逐的刺激 Thrills of the chase | 天真的人类学家2: 重返多瓦悠兰
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A Dowayo Village at the end of the dry season is characterized by feverish creative endeavour. Dowayos live in a world of very firm lines. In the wet season, once the rain-chief has applied the remedies to the rain-pots and made the storm clouds gather, one set of activities is permitted. In the dry season, when the rain-pots have been wiped dry or purged with fire, another range of human skills is allowed to be employed. To perform dry-season tasks in the wet season or vice versa is to disturb the cosmic order and could have devastating results for all. The hands that performed such acts would erupt in boils, women would miscarry, pots would explode. Likewise a firm line marks off male from female activities. A man must never draw water. This is women's work. A woman must not weave cloth. That is a man's task. Dowayos live quite happily within the network of such prohibitions. There is a comforting sense of place and appropriate time. The ethnographer comes to know and dread the reply, 'It is not the right time to talk of this. It is not the moment.' No amount of cajolery, no pantomime of disappointment, will melt a Dowayo's heart once it has been deemed the wrong time for certain things.
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第十章: 迫逐的刺激 Thrills of the chase
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