Truly Human: Indigeneity and Indigenous Resurgence on Formosa

"This masterful ethnographic appreciation brings the island’s iIndigenous peoples to the forefront of our anthropological understanding of Taiwan. The writing is beautiful, the analysis keen, and Simon’s identification with the culture and beliefs of the people he has worked with and lived among, and about which this book is written, is deep and multifaceted. A major contribution to the study of Taiwan and indigeneity."

Myron L. Cohen, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University

"In times of globalized capitalism and environmental degradation, do Indigenous ways of living and thinking offer viable alternatives? Is anthropology itself viable now that studying ‘culture’ has been revealed as just one more imperialist activity? After decades spent getting to know the Truku and Seediq peoples of Taiwan, Scott E. Simon’s answers to these questions are honest, passionate, challenging, tentative, and hopeful."

Stevan Harrell, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology and School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington