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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786180703321

Titolo

Anthropology and colonialism in Asia and Oceania / / [edited by] Jan van Bremen and Akitoshi Shimizu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 1999

ISBN

1-136-10594-8

0-203-03667-0

1-283-96270-5

1-136-10586-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (418 p.)

Collana

Anthropology of Asia series

Altri autori (Persone)

BremenJan van <1946-2005.>

ShimizuAkitoshi <1942->

Disciplina

301/.095

Soggetti

Anthropology - Asia - History

Anthropology - Oceania - History

Colonies - Asia - History

Colonies - Oceania - History

Colonies Asia History Congresses

Colonies Oceania History Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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--P. xi.

Reprinted 2000.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Anthropology in colonial contexts : historical and comparative perspectives -- pt. 2. Japanese anthropology in colonial contexts : East Asia, South-East Asia and Oceania -- pt. 3. Dutch anthropology in colonial contexts : South-East Asia.

Sommario/riassunto

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