Taipei, May 9 (CNA) Hu Tai-li (胡台麗), an anthropologist, ethnographic filmmaker and an adjunct research fellow at Academia Sinica's Institute of Ethnology, has died of an illness.
Hu Tai-li (胡台麗), an anthropologist, ethnographic filmmaker and adjunct research fellow at Academia Sinica’s Institute of Ethnology, has died following an illness.
She was 72 years old, former Council of Indigenous Peoples minister Sun Ta-chuan (孫大川) said on Sunday.
Sun wrote on Facebook on Sunday morning that he was shocked and saddened to hear late on Saturday night of the passing of Hu, a well-respected friend of Indigenous peoples.
Born in 1950, Hu, a pioneer of ethnographic films, graduated from National Taiwan University’s (NTU) department of history and obtained a doctorate in anthropology from City University of New York.
She concurrently served as a