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Research on Austronesian Taiwan: Retrospect and Prospect This session is to bring together scholars who are interested in the study of Austronesian Taiwan with the keen interest to dialogue with the wider literature on Oceania. Due to their colonial history, Austronesian speakers in Taiwan were largely unknown to Western scholars outside of the island until recently; consequently studies of Austronesian Taiwan were often marginalized and left out of academic regional traditions of both Asian Studies (in spite geographical links) and Pacific Islands Studies (in spite of linguistic, genetic, and to a certain extent cultural links). Recent debates on the Austronesian homeland and the dispersal of Austronesian speakers in archaeology and linguistics have helped to boost the visibility of Austronesian speakers in Taiwan in wider academic arenas, and this session should bring together social anthropologists with substantial interests in deepening this dialogue for Oceania studies as a whole. Please contact Kun-hui Ku by October 20, 2008, if you are interested in participating in the session. Kun-hui Ku, Institute of Anthropology, National Tsing-Hua University, 101, Section 2, Kuang Fu Road, Hsinchu, Taiwan 200, REPUBLIC OF CHINA; <kunhui.ku@gmail.com> |
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