Laipunuk (Nei Ben Lu) – The Last Frontier Of The Taiwan Aborigines During The Japanese Occupation On Taiwan: Ethnographic Narratives Of A Bunun Elder

• Main Author: Martin, Steven Andrew
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM Press) 2011
• Subjects: P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.usm.my/40519/1/StevenMartin-Laipunuk.pdf; http://eprints.usm.my/40519/; http://ijaps.usm.my/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/StevenMartin-Laipunuk.pdf
• Institution: Universiti Sains Malaysia

The Bunun are one of the indigenous groups of Taiwan that have a rich history of living in the high-mountains. The region of Laipunuk (Nei Ben Lu) was once a group of mountain villages and among the last frontier areas to be annexed into Imperial Japan in Taiwan. The remoteness of the region, cou...