Here at WoWasis, we consider it a tribute to author Susan Conway that her book Thai Textiles (1992, ISBN 974-8225-798) continues to be a primary source on the subject some 20 years after its initial publishing date. This 192 page paperback retails for $140 USD on the internet, although used copies may be found for […]
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Man jailed in Thailand for turning dead foetuses into Goomarn Thong icons
Here at WoWasis, we’ve always been fascinated by the statues and images found on the ‘hing,’ or altar, found in many Thai houses and businesses. Goomarn Thong is one of these, representing a dead baby. On May 28, the Bangkok Post reported that a man has been jailed for gold-leafing six dead foetuses, transforming them […]
Read the rest of this entry »Grey Man: yet another Sex Trafficking NGO found to be falsifying data
NGOs investigtaing alleged sex trafficking continue to be challenged in providing truthful information
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis book review: Judith Heimann’s The Airmen and the Headhunters (Borneo)
Judith M. Heimann’s The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen, and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II (2007, ISBN 978-0-15-101434-7) is more than just an adventure story, encompassing many fascinating anthropological elements of the Dayak culture of Borneo. It starts off slowly, but becomes a real page-turner as […]
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis explores Taiwan’s rich indigenous aboriginal culture
Taiwan’s presence in the high technology world has given it an aura of modernity that somewhat masks the fact that it has an extraordinary richness and diversity of aboriginal peoples. These diverse tribes are all part of the Austronesian language group, which spans an incredible distance, from Madagascar to Easter Island, and Taiwan to New […]
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis visits Taiwan’s Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines in Taipei
The Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines is located one block away from Taipei’s National Palace Museum, and is a must for visitors wishing to learn more about Taiwan’s indigenous aboriginal peoples, which include the Amis, Atayal, Bunun, Kavalan, Paiwan, Puyuma, Rukai, Saisiyat, Sakizaya, Sediq, Thao, Truku (Taroko), Tsou, and Yami (Tao) tribes. It was […]
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis book review: ‘Taiwan’s Aboriginal Peoples’ photo book
Visitors to Taiwan are often surprised by the richness of her aboriginal culture, but finding books in English describing the richness and variety of these cultures can be daunting. Taiwan’s Aboriginal Peoples (2002, ISBN 957-01-2744-9), with photographs and text by Wang Wei-chang, and English translation by Phillip Newell, is a lavishly photographed, bi-lingual, large-format book […]
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis visits Taiwan’s National Museum of Prehistory in Taitung
Although it’s not the easiest place to find (see our GPS coordinates below), we here at WoWasis think the National Museum of Prehistory in the southeastern Taiwanese city of Taitung is definitely worth a visit in you’re in the area. The building itself is gorgeous, designed by noted architect Michael Graves, and the displays are […]
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis book review: ‘Formosa in Fiction,’ by Rolf-Peter Wille
Rolf-Peter Wille is a German writer that has lived in Taiwan since 1978, which makes 33 years as of this writing. He is also a pianist who has performed all over the world both as soloist as well as in a piano duo with his wife, Lina Yeh, who also serves as one of the […]
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis book review: ‘Eye of the Times: Centennial Images of Taiwan’
Taiwan is a country richly documented in photography. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic, the Taiwan Fine Arts Museum in Taipei in May of 2011 launched a photography retrospective documenting the many facets of Taiwan through historical and contemporary photography. The extraordinary richness of the exhibition is documented in its […]
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