austronesian taiwan：linguistics．history．ethnology．prehistory

It is hard to imagine a more usel book than this one on the indigenous people of Taiwan.An extraordinary of research has been carried out on these groups,but this is the first volume to provide a guide to it for the English reader.In a single volume Blundell and his colleagues thoroughly review more than a century of research on all aspects of "abooriginal studies" in Taiwan,from archaeology to linguistics,from  kinship and mortuary practices to the globalization of music and dance performances.There is even an update of theories about the role of Taiwan in the disperssal of AUSTRONESIAN speakers across the Pacific.