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The Aborigines of Taiwan: The Puyuma; From Headhunting to the Modern World (review)

The Aborigines of Taiwan: The Puyuma; From Headhunting to the Modern World (review) book and media reviews The Aborigines of Taiwan: The Puyuma; From Headhunting to the Modern World, by Josiane Cauquelin. English translation by Caroline Charras-Wheeler. London: Routledge / Curzon, 2004. isbn 0-415-31413-5; 277 pages, maps, figures, photographs, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. us$125.00. Here is a solid book! It is the work of a lifetime, living up to the expectations of Georges Condominas, who pens its foreword. The author, Josiane Cauquelin, is a distinguished linguist and ethnologist of the Southeast Asia and Austronesian World Department at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France. She offers us a thorough analysis of the Puyuma, one of the ten Aboriginal communities of Taiwan, whose land holds such important landmarks as the Peinan archaeological site and the National Museum of Prehistory in Taitung. In her introduction, Cauquelin presents the rich background of Taiwan (the name means, literally, "the high peaks"), the very first Austronesian stepping-stone between Mainland China and the Pacific. This event occurred some 4,000 years ago, before the Portuguese found it beautiful ("formosa" in Portuguese), and before the Dutch and Spaniards vied with one another for its colonization. Koxinga, son of a Japanese mother and a Chinese merchant-turned-pirate and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Contemporary Pacific University of Hawai'I Press

The Aborigines of Taiwan: The Puyuma; From Headhunting to the Modern World (review)

The Contemporary Pacific , Volume 18 (2) – Jul 27, 2006

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book and media reviews The Aborigines of Taiwan: The Puyuma; From Headhunting to the Modern World, by Josiane Cauquelin. English translation by Caroline Charras-Wheeler. London: Routledge / Curzon, 2004. isbn 0-415-31413-5; 277 pages, maps, figures, photographs, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. us$125.00. Here is a solid book! It is the work of a lifetime, living up to the expectations of Georges Condominas, who pens its foreword. The author, Josiane Cauquelin, is a distinguished linguist and ethnologist of the Southeast Asia and Austronesian World Department at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France. She offers us a thorough analysis of the Puyuma, one of the ten Aboriginal communities of Taiwan, whose land holds such important landmarks as the Peinan archaeological site and the National Museum of Prehistory in Taitung. In her introduction, Cauquelin presents the rich background of Taiwan (the name means, literally, "the high peaks"), the very first Austronesian stepping-stone between Mainland China and the Pacific. This event occurred some 4,000 years ago, before the Portuguese found it beautiful ("formosa" in Portuguese), and before the Dutch and Spaniards vied with one another for its colonization. Koxinga, son of a Japanese mother and a Chinese merchant-turned-pirate and

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Published: Jul 27, 2006

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