Asian anthropology / / edited by Jan van Bremen, Eyal Ben-Ari and Syed Farid Alatas

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , [2005]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 pages)
• Disciplina: 301.095; 306/.095
• Soggetto topico: Ethnology - Asia - Philosophy; Ethnology - Asia - History; Philosophy, Asian; Anthropologists - Attitudes; Indigenous peoples - Education (Higher); Racism in anthropology
• Soggetto geografico: Asia Social life and customs
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Soggetto non controllato: Asian anthropology; Indigenous anthropology; Indigenised anthropology; Asia
• Persona (resp. second.): AlatasFarid, Syed; Ben-AriEyal <1953->; BremenJan van <1946->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Asian anthropologies and anthropologies in Asia : an introductory essay / Eyal Ben-Ari and Jan van Bremen -- Indigenous and indigenized anthropology in Asia / Grant Evans -- Beyond orthodoxy : social and cultural anthropology in the People's Republic of China / Frank N. Pieke -- Anthropologists of Asia, anthropologists in Asia : the academic mode of production in the semi-periphery / Jerry S. Eades -- Native discourse in the 'academic world system' : Kunio Yanagita's project of global folkloristics reconsidered / Takami Kuwayama -- Korean anthropology : a search for new paradigms / Okpyo Moon -- 'Indigenizing' anthropology in India : problematics of negotiating an identity / Vineeta Sinha -- An Indian anthropology? : what kind of object is it? / Roma Chatterji -- From Volkenkunde to Djurusan antropologi : the emergence of Indonesian anthropology in postwar Indonesia / Michael Prager -- Anthropology and the nation state : applied anthropology in Indonesia / Martin Ramstedt -- Indigenization : features and problems / Syed Farid Alatas.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 teac
• Titolo autorizzato: Asian anthropology
• ISBN: 1-134-27100-X; 1-134-27101-8; 1-280-21573-9; 9786610215737; 0-203-30814-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910348236303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Anthropology of Asia series (Richmond upon Thames, London, England)