Anthropological Study on the Classification and Reconstruction of the Ethnic Groups about Taiwan Indigeneous Peoples in Their Historical Context

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We studied academic records including linguistic, ethnographic and museum objects which were collected during Japanese colonial period in Taiwan, and investigated the historical process of classifying ethnic groups of Taiwan indigenous peoples. We also inspected how language system, social relationship and material cultures of them might give the effects to the classification and reconstruction of ethnic groups in Taiwan at the present. Their languages, social system and material cultures had been studied by the officer of the colonial government or scholars. Their result was partly used when indigenous peoples were classified into new groups after WWII. Some indigenous groups complain the existing classification and try to reconstruct the different populations. They ask academic records during the Japanese colonial periods for a basis of the ethnicity and the importance of academic records increases.