Anthropology and Colonialism in Asia: Comparative and Historical Colonialism

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ISBN: 9780700706044 | 0700706046
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Copyright: 12/9/1998

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This study demonstrates that colonialism was not only a western phenomenon; Japanese and Chinese anthropologists also studied subject peoples. Comparison of experiences further helps to illuminate this complex relationship.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Anthropology in colonial contexts: a tale of two countries and some	p. 1
Anthropology in colonial contexts: historical and comparative perspectives
Anthropology in colonial contexts. The second Kamchatka expedition (1733-1743) and the Danish-German Arabia expedition (1761-1767)	p. 13
Academic traditions, urban dynamics and colonial threat: the rise of ethnography in early modern Japan	p. 40
From texts to bodies: Brian Houghton Hodgson and the emergence of ethnology in India	p. 65
Nationalist anthropology in Taiwan 1945-1996 - a reflexive survey	p. 93
Japanese anthropology in colonial contexts: East Asia, South-East Asia and Oceania
Colonialism and the development of modern anthropology in Japan	p. 115
Assimilation from within, appropriation from without: the folklore-studies and ethnology of Ryukyu/Okinawa	p. 172
Japanese colonialism and the investigation of Taiwanese 'old customs'	p. 197
The natives next-door: ethnology in colonial Korea	p. 219
Japanese colonial policy and anthropology in Manchuria	p. 245
Staging ethnography: theatre and Japanese colonialism	p. 266
Toilet training, shame, and the influence of alien cultures: cultural anthropologists and American policy making for postwar Japan 1944-1945	p. 285
Dutch anthropology in colonial contexts: South-East Asia
Colonial ideologies and ethnological discourses: a comparison of the United Faculties at Leiden and Utrecht	p. 307
Crossing borders, healing wounds: Leiden anthropology and the colonial encounter 1917-1949	p. 326
The Japanese and Dutch anthropology of insular South-East Asia in the colonial period 1879-1949	p. 362
Afterword: Colonialism, anthropology and the politics of professionalisation: an argumentative afterword	p. 38
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