An Anthropological Study of Change in the Classification of Taiwan's Indigenous Peoples

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26300040
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology
• Research Institution: National Museum of Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: Nobayashi Atsushi 国立民族学博物館, 学術資源研究開発センター, 教授 (10290925)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 森口 恒一 静岡大学, 人文社会科学部, 教授 (10145279) ; 松岡 格 獨協大学, 国際教養学部, 准教授 (40598413) ; 笠原 政治 横浜国立大学, 教育学部, 名誉教授 (70130747) ; 宮岡 真央子 福岡大学, 人文学部, 教授 (70435113)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 台湾原住民族 / エスニシティ / 民族分類 / 民族認定 / 文化資源 / 平埔族 / 植民地統治

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We studied the ethnicity of Taiwan's indigenous peoples in individuals and ethnic groups. We also reviewed documentary records which showed the process of classification of Taiwan indigenous groups by ethnicity. The findings obtained from the research suggest that Taiwan indigenous peoples intentionally examine cultural elements or ethno-history to reorganize of ethnic groups, which was ignored or unknown by researchers or rulers when the previous classification was established. The current process would be a kind of the self-explanation to modify and update an existing ethnic classification idea without new invention. The members published articles and book chapters on the results of the study, as well as holding an international workshop and the international collaborated exhibition in the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka.

Free Research Field

人類学