Review: Hunter School

Hunter School by Sakinu Ahronglong
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The risk with these types of memoirs/personal histories is that they generally have a theme, or message (get back to nature, progress is bad, etc.), and often the message takes precedence rather than the history, where the end result is a preachy book where you have to dig to find glimpses into the real history. 

I almost didn't get past the first few pages of this book, because it seemed like it was going to have exactly that type of issue. Luckily, however, it seemed to be more a recollection of memories and Paiwan traditions than anything too preachy or righteous. 

I do wish we could get something like this from every indigenous group in Taiwan, and not just Paiwan. 

Very interesting to learn about the animosity between Paiwan and Amis as well. 

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