Long a subject of Han Chinese scholarship, Aborigines, both scholars and interested amateurs, began to apply the techniques of anthropology to the study of their own tribes, thereby reclaiming the right to interpret their culture themselves.
過去長期淪為漢人學術研究對象的原住民，或是出身學院，或是自修，紛紛以接近人類學的方式，對於自己的族群進行田野調查，取得自我文化的詮釋權。