日本殖民地人類學“台灣研究”的重讀與再評價
摘要
This paper is the frist installment of a larger reseach project which aims at re-reading and re-thinking the Anthropological discourses-specially those on the ”aborigines”-on Taiwan. The project attempts to initiate a deconstruction as well as an alternative narration of the discipline's past, historically and politically. Based on the observation of the amazing lack of reflexion on Orientalism-both in Japan and in Taiwan-, the paper firstly identified the collusive nature of the Han-national(ist) Anthropology vis-a-vis its predecessor., i.e. the Japanese Colonial Anthropology. In a context-sensitive fashion, the paper seeks to analyze the politico-economic conditions and discursive imparatives involved in the various phases of an anthropological exercise of imperial otherization/appropriation. Reviewing the career of George Stocking's works on histories of American Anthropology, the author suggests that a more self-reflexive and context-sensitive approach be incorporated into the newly devoloping studies of Japanese Colonial Anthropology and deconstruction of Han-national(ist) Anthropology in Taiwan.