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Article: The Aborigines of Taiwan: The Puyuma; From Headhunting to the Modern World.(Book review)
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- The Contemporary Pacific
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- September 22, 2006
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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, ...