"Through an understanding of the formation, transmission, mutual influence, and adaptation of cultures, anthropologists hope to discover the key to human evolution and infer the trends of the future," says Liu Pin-hsiung, director of the Academia Sinica's Institute of Ethnology.
「人類學家研究的目的，是希望經由瞭解文化形成、傳承、相互影響和調適的過程，找出一種人類文化進化的脈絡，並推測未來的走向」，中央研究院民族研究所所長劉斌雄說。