Ties Across a Century: Ryuzo Torii and Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples
The special exhibition Fragmentation & Reassembly at the Museum of Archaeology, Tainan Branch of the National Museum of Prehistory
Taiwan’s complex and varied geography has fostered exceptional cultural diversity among its many peoples, making the island a magnet for ethnographers during the era of Japanese rule. Some 130 years ago, the Japanese anthropologist Ryuzo Torii, then in his twenties, visited Taiwan for the firs......