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	Linguist List - Book Information
		The Paiwan are one of the indigenous ethnolinguistic minority groups of Taiwan.
		The interlinearised texts are given in Chapter 2, and are followed by a concordance (Chapter 3), which gives all Paiwan morphemes with their glosses and an exhaustive list of references to their location in the texts.
		Chapter 4 is a reversal or finder list, which gives an alphabetical list in English of all glosses, with their Paiwan forms.
	www.linguistlist.org /pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=7093&RequestTimeout=500 (272 words)

	Paiwan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Rice farmer Paiwan, a member of the village council, claims one district official...
		Paiwan is part of the Austronesian language group.
		Paiwan zu Gulou cun di ji yi yu wen hua (Dao xiang yuan zhu min)
	hallencyclopedia.com /Paiwan (392 words)

	The Return of the Immortal Paiwan - Bien Daniel Chiang
		Of these nine tribes, the Paiwan is the third most populous.
		The Paiwan, however, disagree with this account and explain their history with their own legends.
		In all versions, the Paiwan established their ancestral village at the foot of the mountain, located to the north of their territory.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1987/october/Sa13244.htm (356 words)

	Indigenous Arts
		Ceramic pots in Paiwan culture are passed down from one generation to another as a symbol of social status, turning them into family heirlooms.
		The Paiwan, Rukai, Pinuyumayan, and Yami peoples of southern Taiwan are especially known for their relief and three-dimensional woodcarvings.
		For the Paiwan, pots are strongly associated with ancestor worship; the pots themselves are divided into male, female, and mixed gender, with related designs such as snakes and circles.
	www.taiwan.com.au /Soccul/Arts/report01.html (1217 words)

	TiT Museums: Shung Ye Museum Formosan Aborigines
		Among the costumes exhibited are mourning clothes of the Paiwan and Rukai, most of which are in red, orange, yellow, and green and sewed in elaborate patterns.
		Beadwork, found only with the Paiwan, Rukai, and Puyuma, is closely linked with the owner's social status and tribal system, and is rich in religious significance--it is believed to be able to bring either blessings and protection or bad luck and punishment from the gods.
		Also included here are daggers and spears used by the Yami people to exorcize evil spirits, and Paiwan knives made of bronze--an alloy not produced on the island in the old days, and so of utmost value to both the museum and archeologists in their research.
	www.sinica.edu.tw /tit/museums/1294_shung-ye.html (1025 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The population of Paiwan tribe is about 60,000 peoples, ranked 3rd.
		The Paiwan reside at the eight townships in the Pintung county and Tawu and Taimali villages in the Taitung county.
		Paiwan were skilled with art in sculpture and costume in their life.
	adm.ncyu.edu.tw /~aptc/English_web/Paiwan_a.htm (78 words)

	Culture Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Paiwan ethnic group have titled as Art Folk since Japanese colonised.
		Because Paiwanese modelling art is expressed vigorously and traditional culture is maintained deeply, many scholars think that Paiwanese aboriginal art is the representative of aborigine in Taiwan and Austronesia.
		The spirit of this tribe is shown by the hundred pace snakes and human-headed designs, which symbolized the transcendent status of the nobles, carved on the roof beams and the pots.
	www.taiwan-aboriginal-art.com /ethnic/Paiwan.htm (129 words)

	House and social hierarchy of the Paiwan
		This is an ethnographic study of the Paiwan, an Austronesian group of about 55,000 people living in the southern part of the island of Taiwan.
		In Chapter Three through Five, the Paiwan house is, first, presented as a focal idiom in ethnohistorical accounts, then, as a social unit with a corporate sole, and, finally, as a cultural institution that interplay with people in a dialectic process of mutual definition.
		The rite, based on the history of inland migration originated from the sacred mountain, and the belief of the returning of ancestral spirits from the sacred mountain to each village, is a superb illustration of the place of aristocrats in the embodiment of Paiwan ethnohistory.
	repository.upenn.edu /dissertations/AAI9321371 (369 words)

	Oceania: Tradition and Christianity: Controversial Funerals and Concepts of the Person among the Paiwan, Taiwan
		The Paiwan, speakers of the Austronesian language of Paiwan, are the third largest aboriginal group in Taiwan, comprised of approximately 68,000 people living in the rural and mountainous areas of the southern end of Taiwan (Figure 2).
		The ancestors of the eastern Paiwan are supposed to have migrated from the settlements of the northern or central Paiwan no later than the 17th century, according to Japanese scholars (Utsurikawa et al.
		Paiwan social organization can be best described as a 'house-based' society which has been widely documented in Southeast Asia (Levi-Strauss 1983, 1987, Fox 1987, Errington 1987, Garsten and Hugh-Jones 1995).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3654/is_200303/ai_n9219354 (1301 words)

	Paiwan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The territory of the Paiwan tribe is located in southern Taiwan, and extends northward to Mt. Tawu, southward to Hengchun, westward to Ailiao, and eastward to the coast south of Taimali.
		The Paiwan tribe consists of the Raval and Vutsul sub-tribes.
		The Paiwan are concentrated in Pingtung County, and the largest number live in Laiyi Township.
	www.tacp.gov.tw /ENGLISH/intro/nine/paiwan/paiwan1.htm (115 words)

	China Source
		Those of the Paiwan and Lukai subgroups are considered expert carvers.
		The houses of both the Paiwan and Lukai have elaborate decorations on the pillars, beams, rafters and lintels of both doors and windows.
		The image of the ancestor is the prominent motif on the pillars, and some images clearly show the male and female sex organs.
	www.chsource.org /Gaoshan.htm (410 words)

	Masterworks: Taiwan Aboriginine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The two great art forms of the leading Taiwan tribes of Aborigines: Rukai, Paiwan and Yami Tribes, were weaving and wood carving, two-dimensional and sculpture in the round.
		It had an honored placement in the house and was highly valued in the Paiwan culture.
		This work was secured from a Paiwan village in the rugged mountain area of central Taiwan after Kagle was made honorary chief.
	www.kaglecollection.com /master_abor.html (200 words)

	National Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The historical background, which induced the traditional sports of both Paiwan and Lukai, was related not only to the physical factors such as the geographical environment but also to the economic life and pursuit of survival.
		From the point of view of the three-leveled sports culture, the cinque-ennial Agrarian Festival, the most typical traditional ceremony of Paiwan, has been connected to the body culture by the environment.
		Due to the alterations and transformations of the society, the traditional sports of the Taiwanese aborigines have been endangered and are in a critical status.
	media.justsports.net.tw /spo_demo/en/research/research1.aspx?No=20 (191 words)

	Return to conference page
		Marantz's (1982) claim that reduplication is actually affixation would be strengthened with independent empirical evidence showing that when affixation and reduplication co-occur in the same words, they are subject to the same constraints.
		Using data from Paiwan, an Austronesian language spoken in Southern Taiwan, this study offers cases where a suffix and a reduplicant suffix occur within the same word.
		The reasons for their final positioning within the word are best explained by suffix alignment constraints and independent phonological properties of the language.
	www.ling.hawaii.edu /afla/AbTseng.htm (425 words)

	AN EXTREMELY RARE ANTIQUE PAIWAN SHAMAN'S BOX FROM TAIWAN(TRIBALMANIA.COM)
		Description: Seen here is a rare and authentic Paiwan Shaman's box dating to the early 20th or possibly 19th century.
		The shaman was considered a nobleman and had an important function in Paiwan society.
		One of the privileges of the nobility was the right to use the sacred motifs of the "snake" and "human figure" both of which represent ancestors and are depicted on this box.
	www.tribalmania.com /PAIWANBOX.htm (187 words)

	Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Bolo with wide blade and t-grip for identification
		It is speculated by a number of Anthropologists that the Paiwan were the forefathers/ancestors of all of the races of Austronesian people, i.e., the hill tribes of Northern Luzon, the Dayaks of Borneo, and other peoples across the Indonesian Archipelago.
		The weapons are not just a factor but similarities in customs, you see the Paiwan and other tribes of Taiwan/Formosa were headhunters.
		I can go on and state various other similarities, etc., but I do not want to be accused of going off on a subject.
	www.vikingsword.com /vb/showpost.php?p=2833&postcount=28 (1117 words)

	Taiwan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		“Sounds of Love and Sorrow” lets the eerie sounds of the Paiwan flutes including the nose flute, which legend says imitates the call of the deadly hundred-pace snake, mix in with the recollections of tribal elders and traditional tales to present a rich background of Paiwan life.
		They tell of the creation of the Paiwan people, and lament the end of tribal life, crushed by the irresistible and contradictory forces of government policies and alien cultural influences.
		For many of the Paiwan, love may be a high point of a young life - but it is also the gateway to sorrow.
	www.asianfilms.org /taiwan/paiwan.html (250 words)

	An Aboriginal community goes virtual (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The winner of this special honor was the Piyouma tribe of Paiwan indigenous people living in Pingho Village, Taiwu Rural Township, Pingtung County.
		Text and pictures cover everything from Paiwan culture and the history of tribal relocation to computer education updates and school, church, and community development.
		Over his three months of study, Cegaw discovered the addictive quality of the Internet, and was inspired to use the Net to speak out on behalf of tribal culture.
	publish.gio.gov.tw /iisnet/20001220/20001219f1.html (1629 words)

	paiwan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The clothing worn by the Paiwan was influenced by the wearer's social status.
		The nobility used certain colors and embroidered designs to show their status.
		A long carved beam was installed below the eaves, adding beauty and a sense of mystery to the house.
	et.sdsu.edu /YCheng/final/paiwan.htm (202 words)

	PAIWAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		PAIWAN (Paiuan, Payowan, Samobi, Samohai, Saprek, Tamari, Kadas, Katausan, Stimul)
		Spoken by 67,000 people in the southern, southeastern mountains of Taiwan.
		Source: "Paiwan and Chinese Diglot New Testament" (1983)
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/JPN-paiwan.html (53 words)

	One hundred Paiwan texts Robert Early and John Whitehorn
		The Paiwan are one of the indigenous ethnolinguistic minority groups of Taiwan.
		The interlinearised texts are given in Chapter 2, and are followed by a concordance (Chapter 3), which gives all Paiwan morphemes with their glosses and an exhaustive list of references to their location in the texts.
		Chapter 4 is a reversal or finder list, which gives an alphabetical list in English of all glosses, with their Paiwan forms.
	pacling.anu.edu.au /catalogue/542.html (216 words)

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		Dalavak Livulivuang swings his bride, Tsultsule Daugadu, a Paiwan princess, on a traditonal Paiwan swing in front of the bride's home.
		The bride and groom are both members of powerful families in the Paiwan tribal structure.
		Paiwan are an aboriginal tribe located in southern Taiwan.
	www.onasia.com /system/preview.aspx?pvp=dha0128011.43 (176 words)

	Paiwan Language Term Papers, Essay Research Paper Help, Essays on Paiwan Language
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	<OT> New Posting: ROA-631
		ROA 631-1003 Reduplication as Affixation in Paiwan Meylysa Tseng Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=631 Abstract: In this thesis I investigate the morphological structure of reduplication in Northern Paiwan, a Formosan language of Southern Taiwan.
		The main objective is to use Optimality Theory (OT), as first formulated by Prince and Smolensky (1993), to show that reduplication can be considered the same as affixation.
		One of the conclusions that come forth from the analysis is that templates are needed to describe Paiwan root reduplicatio n.
	camba.ucsd.edu /pipermail/optimal/2003-November/000209.html (440 words)

	LINGUIST List 14.2324: Language Description, Paiwan: Early, Whitehorn
		Message 1: One hundred Paiwan texts: Early, Whitehorn
		Title: One hundred Paiwan texts Subtitle: Series Title: Pacific Linguistics Publication Year: 2003 Publisher: Pacific Linguistics http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ Book URL: http://pacling.anu.edu.au/catalogue/542.html Author: Robert Early Author: John Whitehorn Paperback: ISBN: 08588347907, Pages: viii + 545 pp, Price: A$79.00 Comment: Australian purchasers add 10% GST Abstract: The Paiwan are one of the indigenous ethnolinguistic minority groups of Taiwan.
		An early sketch grammar of the language by John Whitehorn is also included as an appendix Lingfield(s): Language Description Subject Language(s): Paiwan (Language code: PWN) Written In: English (Language Code: ENG) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=7093.
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/14/14-2324.html (288 words)

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