台湾原住民分类之界说

Classification of Taiwan Aborigines

台湾原住民类别的界定以日据时期为界,可划分成两个阶段。前一阶段为明清时期的民间与政治性分类,其施动者主要是文人政客,类别的结果显得杂乱无章,随意性强,缺乏系统性,没有科学凭据;后一阶段是日据以来的学术性分类,其分类者是学有专长的人类学家和考古学家,类别的依据为语言、文化、体质等民族特征,学术意涵浓厚。

Classification of Taiwan Aborigines briefly covers two phases from the perspective of time occupied by Japan. The first phase is the folk and political classification during the Ming and Qing Dynasty, mainly conducted by scholars and politicians, thus the result is disorderly, arbitrary, and in lack of systematicness without scientific bases. The second phase is the academic classification after the occupation by Japan, conducted by anthropologists and archaeologists with academic background based on the ethnic characteristics such as language, culture and physique, with deep academic connotation.