Asian Anthropology / / edited by Jan Van Bremen, Eyal Ben-Ari, Syed Farid Alatas.

• TeilnehmendeR: Bremen, Jan Van,; Ben-Ari, Eyal,; Alatas, Syed Farid,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : Taylor & Francis,, 2005.; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 pages)

Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia. Instead of assuming a universal standard or trajectory for the development of anthropology in Asia, the contributors to this volume...

Table of Contents

• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Asian Anthropologies and Anthropologies in Asia: An Introductory Essay Asia
• 2. Indigenous and Indigenized Anthropology in Asia East Asia
• 3. Beyond Orthodoxy: Social and Cultural Anthropology in the People's Republic in China
• 4. Anthropologists of Asia, Anthropologists in Asia: The Academic Mode of Production in the Semi-Periphery
• 5. Native Discourse in the "Academic World System": Kunio Yanagita's Project of Global Folkloristics Reconsidered
• 6. Korean Anthropology: A Search for New Paradigms South Asia
• 7. "Indigenizing" Anthropology in India: Problematics of Negotiating an Identity
• 8. An Indian Anthropology? What Kind of Object is It? South-East Asia
• 9. From Volkenkunde to Antropologi. The Emergence of Indonesian Anthropology in Post War Indonesia
• 10. Anthropology and the Nation State - Applied Anthropology in Indonesia Afterword
• 11. Indigenization: Features and Problems
• Index.