The Many Ways of Being Human

5.9

Taiwan's Indigenous Peoples

At the end of summer near Taitung, old men sing in a circle at the Amis harvest festival. A recording of one voice, Difang Duana's, later turned up on a record that sold in the millions, with no name on the sleeve. From that one song the chapter moves to Taiwan's indigenous peoples and the island where the Austronesian language family has its deepest branches.