Taiwan and the Seediq: A State of Indigenous Autonomy?
Channel: eRenlai Ricci
Date: 2013-09-10

Scott Simon is a professor at the University of Ottawa and an anthropologist at the Lyons Institute of East Asian Studies (IAO). He works on the issues of development, indigeneity and identity in Taiwan.

In this video he presents the book he wrote after 3 years of research: Sadyaq Balae! Taiwanese Indigeneity in all of its states. He explains us, through the example of the Seediq tribe, the history and the structure of the aboriginal societies in Taiwan as much as the issues they are facing nowadays. He also discusses, from an anthropological point of view, the stakes of development and the claims indigenous people have made regarding their autonomy.