Abstract

Hakka Study is emerging subject in contemporary Taiwan; various subjects have stridden across the Hakkaologic structure. Among others, anthropologists and ethnologists have made a remarkable contribution towards Hakka topics. This study aims to explore the theories including anthropology, and the contribution that ethnologists have made in constructing Hakkaology in the past 80 years, especially on the comparative analyses of districts. First of all, it discusses the reasons why Hua-Nan Kakka studies spring up, and then it adopts several important theory paradigms to classify the thread of Hakka studies, inclusive of marketing system, religious territory, sociodemographic comparison, district cultural variation, and the change of immigrants, emigrants and culture. Meanwhile, through the investigation into the subject plan of Hua-Nan Hakka and district research results, the study further probes into Hakka recognition and Hakka consciousness as the beginning of current topics and the enlightenment that the pioneering research has caused for the later involved scholars. Through the cross-regional comparative analyses, Hakka study also reveals the shared characteristics of Hakka culture among ethnic groups, incorporated and in such context, the difference, reflect that numerous ”local societies” have been included in Hakka culture. Scholars of Hakka study show their great interest in the investigation into small Hakka districts, there by having an opportunity to summarize the significant factors on the historicity of Hakka.

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