Contributing

ECAI Austronesia

The ECAI Austronesia Team is open to scholarly and community participation. If you are interested, send information by email to pacific@berkeley.edu about your project goals and resources, and include the following: 1.Your name, 2. Title of project and abstract, 3. Contact address, preferably email.

This scholarly and educational process of annotated mapping with the assistance Indo-Pacific linguistics, archaeology, ethnology, sociology, geography, and history is proceeding in phases to serve as an academic bulletin board for scholarly exchange.

ECAI Austronesia is an ongoing mapping process based on language and culture generally with specific collaborative team expectations. Projects are dependent on the goals of the researchers fitting into the parameters of ECAI objectives.

The progress of the ECAI Austronesia Team has been significantly assisted by two grants by the University of California Berkeley Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines Endowment Fund to David Blundell and Michael Buckland. This Fund was formed through an agreement made between the Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines, in Taipei, and the University of California at Berkeley. The funding came through the generosity of the N.W. Lin Foundation for Culture and Education. The grants were:

• Austronesian Electronic Atlas Initiative Linguistic Mapping, $16,000, 2000-01.
• Mapping Formosan Austronesian Languages, $11,500, 2001-02.
• The Distribution of Aboriginal Languages from Taiwan to the Philippines: Digital Continuous Mapping of the Batanic Languages, $17,000, 2003-04.
• Orchid Island and the Batanes: A Cultural Atlas of Languages and Cultures, $13,000, 2005-06.
• Orchid Island (Lan-yu) and the Batanes: A Cultural Atlas of Languages and Cultures. $30,000. 2007-2008.