塔威人的人数不多,且大部份居住在东南亚地区菲律宾海域上,他们生活在海上,以船为家,长年过着水上游牧生活,形成水上一族。在很长一个时期里这一族有着原始、独立、完整而固定的生活模式,几百年来他们以完全独立的生活方式隔绝于其他相临族。在Samal族人眼中“船上人家”是外来 The Tawi people are small in number and mostly live in the waters of the Philippine Sea in Southeast Asia. They live at sea and use boats as their home. They live the water for nomadism and live in water for many years to form a water clan. For a long time, this group had primitive, independent, complete and fixed lifestyles, and for centuries they had been isolated from other relatives in a completely independent way of life. In the eyes of Samal people, “people on board” are alien