A Study Of Ethnic Relations Among Indigenous Peoples In Taiwan During The Period Of Japanese Occupation

This thesis attempts to understand the ethnic change and its influence factors of indigenous peoples in Taiwan during the period of Japanese occupation.Using the methods of historical anthropology,pay attention to not only the current situation of the ethnic relations of indigenous peoples in Taiwan through the fieldwork,but also combines with literature,trace and reconstruct the ethnic change of indigenous peoples in Taiwan during the period of Japanese occupation,analyzes the influence factors of the ethnic change,and then forecast the future of ethnic relations of indigenous peoples in Taiwan.I hope this study will be helpful to understand the phenomenon of contemporary Taiwan ethnic group,respond to such problems as"Taiwan subjectivity" and so on.I also hope to trigger further discussion of the anthropology theory of ethnic group.The content of this study includes five aspects:first,ethnic relations of indigenous peoples in Taiwan before Japanese occupation;Second,Japanese officials and scholars research on indigenous peoples in Taiwan;Third,the Japanese colonial authorities’ policy and practice on governing indigenous peoples in Taiwan;Fourthly,Tagasago construction and The Kominka Movement;Fifthly,emic behavior analysis of indigenous peoples in Taiwan based on the major events.Finally,make the conclusion.The study found there were two key influence factors of ethnic relations,one is"power institutions" embodied in ethnic classification,population survey,culture change,residence movement and so on;the other is"primordial history" including common origin,shared space,same experience.It seems the two factors interwork with each other and decide the ethnic relations together.One of the innovations of this thesis is putting forward a new view of the basic elements of "primordial history".