ABSTRACT
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 begin with the appropriate premise that anthropologies in different Asian countries have developed and continue to develop according to their own internal dynamics. With chapters written by an international group of experts in the field, Asian Anthropology will be a useful teaching tool and a valuable resource for scholars working in Asian anthropology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Introduction
part |2 pages
Part II Asia
part |2 pages
Part III East Asia
chapter 3|21 pages
Beyond orthodoxy: social and cultural anthropology in the People’s Republic of China
chapter 4|17 pages
Anthropologists of Asia, anthropologists in Asia: the academic mode of production in the semi-periphery
chapter 5|20 pages
Native discourse in the ‘academic world system’: Kunio Yanagita’s project of global folkloristics reconsidered
part |2 pages
Part IV South Asia
part |2 pages
Part V South-East Asia
chapter 9|22 pages
From Volkenkunde to Djurusan Antropologi: the emergence of Indonesian anthropology in postwar Indonesia
part |2 pages
Part VI Afterword