台湾における体質人類学方面の研究の概説(<特集>台湾研究)
1954 年 18 巻 1-2 号 p. 105-107
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1954 年 18 巻 1-2 号 p. 105-107
Research work on the inhabitants of Formosa, initiated by Dr. R. TORII in the year of 1896, has been carried out during the last half a century, and the latest stage, for 13 years' duration at least, was represented by those works by the present author and his collaborators, which would be of some importance. A perspective obtained from those works was given by the present author on the occasion of the 57th Congress of the Japanese Anatomical Society held at Tokushima, Shikoku, in Aprill 1952. It may be summarized thus : the Atayal is physically akin to the Tagalog, Dayak and Naga, and other aboriginal peoples of Formosa, except the Ami and Yami, are not so much different fom the Atayal ; in the whole area of eastern and southeastern Asia there is found no people physically akin to the Ami and Yami ; and the culturally sinicized Plain Aborigines, in some respects, are akin less to other aboriginal peoples than to the Formosan Chinese.
