Hu Tai-li
Taiwanese anthropologist (1950–2022) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hu Tai-li (March 11, 1950 – May 7, 2022) was a Taiwanese anthropologist and documentary director from Taipei.[1] She graduated from Taipei First Girls' High School,[2] obtained her bachelor's degree in history from National Taiwan University, and later earned her master's and doctoral degrees in anthropology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.[3]
Since 1979, Hu worked at the Institute of Ethnology at the Academia Sinica, and in 2015, she became the director of the Institute of Ethnology. She also served as an adjunct professor in the Anthropology Department at National Tsing Hua University.[1][3]
Hu was the first and second president of the Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Association and founded the Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival in 2001.[2][3]