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內容簡介 This complete collection of ethnographic papers by Inez de Beauclair (1897–1981) presents the fruit of the author's long and active anthropological career. First published in widely scattered sources and apanning the period from 1942 to 1978, these researches are based on Mme. De Beauclair's extensive fieldwork in Southwestern China, Taiwan, Northern Phillippine and Micronesia. The collection includes seven articles on the Yami of Botel Tobago, 15 articles on Yap and the Pacific, six articles on the Miao of Kweichow and Hainan Island, three articles on the Keh Lao of Kweichow, six articles on Taiwan aborigines and Formosa in the Dutch period, and 11 miscellaneous articles and reviews principally concerning ethnic groups of South China. For this edition a number of papers have also been translated from the original German. Generously illustrated with the author's illuminating photographs, figures and maps, this volume stands as a tribute to the scholarship of a remarkable pioneer and the first foreigner to be distinguished by election to the prestigious Academia Sinica.