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.
Author(s): Jan Van Bremen
Edition: 1
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 264
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Notes on contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Part I Introduction......Page 14
1 Asian anthropologies and anthropologies in Asia......Page 16
Part II Asia......Page 54
2 Indigenous and indigenized anthropology in Asia......Page 56
Part III East Asia......Page 70
3 Beyond orthodoxy......Page 72
4 Anthropologists of Asia, anthropologists in Asia......Page 93
5 Native discourse in the “academic world system”......Page 110
6 Korean anthropology......Page 130
Part IV South Asia......Page 150
7 ‘Indigenizing’ anthropology in India......Page 152
8 An Indian anthropology?......Page 175
Part V South-East Asia......Page 190
9 From Volkenkunde to Djurusan Antropologi......Page 192
10 Anthropology and the nation state......Page 214
Part VI Afterword......Page 238
11 Indigenization......Page 240
Index......Page 258
