Introduction
………………Atsushi Nobayashi and Scott Simon

Part I: Indigenous Insights
The Route to Ramie Cultural Ecology
………………Yuma Taru and Baunay Watan
The Social and Cultural Implications of Ramie Restoration for the Siraya
………………Alak Akatuang (Hongkun Duan)
A Preliminary Study on the Ethnic Plants of the Sediq People
………………Kumu Tapas

Part II: Austronesian Perspectives
The Diversity of Taiwanese Indigenous Culture Seen in Bead Products
………………Atsushi Nobayashi
Flying the Pacific, Culturing Oceania:
Human-Bird Entanglements and Austronesian Worlds
………………Scott Simon
Ecology as a Trope and the Virtue of Cosmology:
Birds among the Alangan Mangyans and the Blaan Koronadals
of Mindanao (Philippines)
………………Frédéric Laugrand and Antoine Laugrand

Part III: Museum Experiences
The Museum and Environmental Education:
A Case Study of the National Museum of Prehistory, Taiwan
………………Agilasay Pakawyan (Chih-Hsing Lin)
Trees as Museum Objects:
A Case Study of Trees at the National Museum of Taiwan History Park
………………Shih-yuan Hsieh
Museum Management from an Environmental Perspective:
Undertakings at the National Museum of Ethnology
………………Shingo Hidaka

Part IV: Landscape in Taiwan and Cross-Scape Technology
Ritual Landscapes, Human-Species Networks, and Environmental Shift:
Contemporary Amis’ Ritual Practices as Cultural Heritage
………………Yi-tze Lee
Taiwanese Love Nature, Yet Struggle to Embrace Their Heritage:
Let’s Try Local/Indigenous Knowledge and Value
………………David Blundell
Ecological Approach to Cultural Elements Using GIS-based Spatial Analysis
………………Hirofumi Teramura

INDEX

List of Contributors