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In November 1633, the Reverend Robertus Junius informed the Dutch East India Company governor on Formosa (modern Taiwan) about the difficulties he was experiencing in his Sincan (Hsin-kang) benefice. He dejectedly reported that inhabitant Tackareij, whom he himself had taught the Christian principles, had yelled at him: ‘If the Dutch want to bring me back to my wife, so I will trample one of them and run away.’
This article is a revised version of: N.C. Everts, ‘Indigenous Concepts of Marriage in seventeenth-century Sincan (Hsin-kang): Impressions gathered from the Letters of the Dutch Ministers Georgius Candidius and Robertus Junius’, in: Yeh Chuen-rong (ed.), Li shih wên hua yû tsu ch’ün T’ai-wan yüan chu min kuo chi yen t’ao hui lun wên chi (History, Culture and Ethnicity, Selected Papers from the International Conference on the Formosan Indigenous Peoples) (Taipei: Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines, 2006), 89–104.
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Everts, N. (2018). Siraya Concepts of Marriage in Seventeenth-Century Sincan: Impressions Gathered from the Letters of Two Dutch Missionaries. In: Chen, Yc. (eds) (En)Gendering Taiwan. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63219-3_2
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