[Anthropgrad] CHANGE AND CONTINUITY, , IN THE ABORIGINAL SOCIETIES OF TAIWAN

[Fay.Castles]

*******Workshop Announcement*******

 CHANGE AND CONTINUITY

IN THE ABORIGINAL SOCIETIES OF TAIWAN

 Monday, 29 October 2007, 9:00am-5:00pm

Coombs Seminar Rooms C and A

 Sponsored by the International Centre for Excellence in Asia Pacific 
Studies

and the Department of Anthropology RSPAS

 Organisers: Prof Mark Mosko (ANU), Prof Ying-kuei Huang (Academia 
Sinica), Ms Shu-ling Yeh (ANU)

 Taiwan is widely recognized as the homeland of the Austronesian peoples 
now living throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Knowledge of the 
surviving Austronesian-speaking peoples of Taiwan is thus critical to 
our understanding of the cultures, languages, and histories of Asia and 
the Pacific generally. However, the most authoritative ethnographical 
and historical knowledge of the Taiwanese Aboriginal Austronesians has 
been accumulated by Chinese and Japanese scholars with the voluminous 
results of this research inaccessible to most English-speaking 
investigators. For similar reasons the research and recent disciplinary 
advancements of English-speaking anthropologists of Asian and the 
Pacific societies have enjoyed relatively restricted opportunities for 
influencing the work being conducted by the Taiwanese.

 This day-long workshop is aimed at bridging this lacuna by presenting a 
forum wherein the five leading Taiwanese anthropologists on aboriginal 
cultures will share their current research with anthropologists and 
other scholars who are similarly interested in comparisons of 
Austronesian-speaking societies in Asia and the Pacific. The visiting 
Taiwanese scholars who are based at Academia Sinica will be addressing a 
wide range of topics ('house' organisation, urbanisation, hierarchy, 
history and 'reinvention', Christian conversion, globalization, etc) in 
several indigenous Taiwanese societies as well as in Tahiti. Two ANU 
anthropologists who have conducted fieldwork on Taiwan, Prof James Fox 
and Ms Shu-Ling Yeh, will also be presenting papers on their recent 
research.

 All interested staff and students are invited to attend and 
participate. For further information, please contact Shu-Ling Yeh, ext. 
51261, email: shu-ling.yeh at anu.edu.au.

 WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

 Morning Session - Coombs Seminar Room C

9:00-9:15am Introduction: Prof Mark Mosko and Prof Ying-Kuei Huang

9:15-10:00am Prof Ying-kuei Huang - The Formation and Reinvention of the 
Bunun Culture in Taiwan 
<http://www.aas.asn.au/conf07/sessions/sesabs21a.php>

10:00-10:45am Dr Wen-te Chen - Incorporating the Foreign as the 
Autochthonous: An Ethnographic Study of the Puyuma People of Eastern 
Taiwan <http://www.aas.asn.au/conf07/sessions/sesabs21b.php>

10:45-11:00am Tea/coffee

11:00-11:45am Dr Bien Chiang - Articulation of Hierarchies: House, 
Community and Value among the Paiwan 
<http://www.aas.asn.au/conf07/sessions/sesabs21c.php>

11:45am-12:30pm Dr Shiun-wey Huang, Reanalyzing Change and Continuity in 
Amis Religion <http://www.aas.asn.au/conf07/sessions/sesabs21d.php>

12:30-1:30pm Lunch Break

Afternoon Schedule - Coombs Seminar Room A

1:30-2:15pm Shu-Ling Yeh - The Encompassing Kinship System of the 
Austronesian-Speaking Amis of Taiwan 
<http://www.aas.asn.au/conf07/sessions/sesabs21e.php>

2:15-3:00pm Dr Yuan-chao Tung - Fa-Amu (`To Feed'): Adopting Tahitian 
Children, and Becoming Tahitians? 
<http://www.aas.asn.au/conf07/sessions/sesabs21f.php>

3:00-3:45pm Prof James J. Fox - The Critical Evidence of Taiwanese 
Relationship Terminologies within the Austronesian Language Family 
<http://www.aas.asn.au/conf07/sessions/sesabs21e.php>

3:45-4:00pm Tea/coffee

4:00-5:00pm Discussion

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Fay Castles
Departmental Administrator
Department of Anthropology
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
+61-2-612 52162  Fax: +61-2-612 53023
Fay.Castles at anu.edu.au
http://rspas.anu.edu.au/anthropology
ANU CRICOS Provider Number: 00120C
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