Anthropology and colonialism in Asia and Oceania

In: Anthropology of Asia series

Abstract

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