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Title Anthropology and colonialism in Asia and Oceania / [edited by] Jan van Bremen and Akitoshi Shimizu
Published Richmond, Surrey : Curzon, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 409 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Anthropology of Asia series
Anthropology of Asia series (Richmond upon Thames, London, England)
Contents Anthropology in colonial contexts: a tale of two countries and some / Jan van Bremen and Akitoshi Shimizu -- Anthropology in colonial contexts: the second Kamchatka expedition (1733-1743) and the Danish-German Arabia expedition (1761-1767) / Han F. Vermeulen -- Academic traditions, urban dynamics and colonial threat: the rise of ethnography in early modern Japan / Margarita Winkel -- From texts to bodies: Brian Houghton Hodgson and the emergence of ethnology in India / Peter Pels -- Nationalist anthropology in Taiwan 1945-1996, a reflexive survey / Fred Y.L. Chiu -- Colonialism and the development of modern anthropology in Japan / Akitoshi Shimizu -- Assimilation from within, appropriation from without: the folklore-studies and ethnology of Ryūkyū/Okinawa / Patrick Beillevaire -- Japanese colonialism and the investigation of Taiwanese 'old customs' / Timothy Y. Tsu -- The natives next-door: ethnology in colonial Korea / Boudewijn Walraven -- Japanese colonial policy and anthropology in Manchuria / Katsumi Nakao -- Staging ethnography: theatre and Japanese colonialism / Jennifer Robertson -- Toilet training, shame, and the influence of alien cultures: cultural anthropologists and American policy making for postwar Japan 1944-1945 / Rudolf V.A. Janssens -- Colonial ideologies and ethnological discourses: a comparison of the United Faculties at Leiden and Utrecht / Jan de Wolf -- Crossing borders, healing wounds: Leiden anthropology and the colonial encounter 1917-1949 / Michael Prager -- The Japanese and Dutch anthropology of insular South-East Asia in the colonial period 1879-1949 / Jan van Bremen -- Colonialism, anthropology and the politics of professionalisation: an argumentative afterword / Eyal Ben-Ari
Summary For a time it was almost a cliche to say that anthropology was a handmaiden of colonialism - by which was usually meant 'Western' colonialism. And this insinuation was assumed to somehow weaken the theoretical claims of anthropology and its fieldwork achievements. What this collection demonstrates is that colonialism was not only a Western phenomenon, but 'Eastern' as well. And that Japanese or Chinese anthropologists were also engaged in studying subject peoples. But wherever they were and whoever they were anthropologists always had a complex and problematic relationship with the colon
Notes "This volume owes its origins to the workshop 'Colonial anthropology in East and South-East Asia: a comparative view' which met in 1995 on 18-20 May in the Centre for Japanese and Korean Studies in the University of Leiden in the Netherlands"--Page xi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Anthropology -- Asia -- History -- Congresses
Anthropology -- Oceania -- History -- Congresses
Colonies -- Asia -- History -- Congresses
Colonies -- Oceania -- History -- Congresses
Anthropology -- Research -- Japan -- Congresses
Anthropology -- Research -- Netherlands -- Congresses
Ethnology -- Asia -- History -- Congresses
Ethnology -- Oceania -- History -- Congresses
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Ethnology
Anthropology -- Research
Anthropology
Colonies
Anthropologie
Kolonialismus
Culturele antropologie.
Kolonialisme.
Anthropologie -- Asie.
Anthropologie -- Océanie.
Netherlands
Japan
Asia
Oceania
Asien
Ozeanien
Asie -- Colonies.
Océanie -- Colonies.
Asie -- Impérialisme.
Océanie -- Impérialisme.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Bremen, Jan van, 1946-2005.
Shimizu, Akitoshi, 1942-
LC no. 98123070
ISBN 9781136105869
1136105867
0203036670
9780203036679
1283962705
9781283962704
1136105948
9781136105944
9781136106026
1136106022