David Blundell, doctorate in anthropology, University of California, has written articles and contributed to books on cultural resource management, visual anthropology, language and communication processes, and aesthetics. Since the 1980s, Dr. Blundell has been teaching at National Taiwan University (NTU) and National Chengchi University (NCCU) in Taipei. His previous edited volume Austronesian Taiwan: Linguistics, History, Ethnology, Prehistory (Berkeley 2000), revised as a 2nd edition in 2009. Prof. Blundell's forthcoming book is on the ethnography of communication: acquisition of language and knowledge.