十七世紀上半的馬賽人

The Basay in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century

本文主要係處理十七世紀上半葉、散居臺灣北部、東北部海岸或河口處的馬賽人，在區域貿易裡扮演的角色，文章探討馬賽人的集體特色，經濟動動與村社關係，並討論其在當時北臺灣的社經地他。最後，運用既有的研究資料進行與同時代東南亞案例的粗略比較，思考馬賽人未能發展成類似東南亞土著王國的原因。

This paper mainly explores the role of the Basay in regional trade during the first half on the seventeenth century. The Basay was an ethnolinguistic group scattered along the northern and northerastern coast or river mouths of Taiwan. This paper discusses the collective characteristics, economic activities, and intervillage relationship of the Basay, as well as examines the contemporary socio-economic status of the Basay in North Taiwan. It then utilized the research data to conduct a gross comparison with other related cases in Southeast Asia and further attempts to explain the failure of the Basay in achieving the stage of political dominance as their contemporaries did.