After Retrocession in 1945 the Anthropology Department at National Taiwan University, the Institute of Ethnology at Academia Sinica, and related departments at various other universities continued the research.
光復後，國立台灣大學人類系、中研院民族所和各大學相關係所仍繼續研究，同時，也有許多外國學者來台做田野調查。