Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective

Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective
Author: Susan Bayly
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2024-05-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1805395025

Contemporary Asian societies present a variety of contrasting experiences and afterlives of colonialism, revolutionary socialism, religion and secular nationalism. Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective draws together essays that demonstrate how modernity has shaped two Asian settings in particular – India and Vietnam. It traces historical and contemporary realities through a variety of compelling topics such as the experience of the Indian caste system and the ethical challenges faced by Vietnamese working women.

Chinese Kinship

Chinese Kinship
Author: Susanne Brandtstädter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2008-09-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134105886

This volume presents contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, and documents in rich ethnographic detail its historical complexity and regional diversity. The collection's analytical emphasis is on the modern 'metamorphoses' of kinship in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan, but the essays also offer ample historical documentation and comparison.

The Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia

The Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia
Author: Shinji Yamashita
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2004
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781571812582

In a path-breaking series of essays the contributors to this collection explore the development of anthropological research in Asia. The volume includes writings on Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines.

Images of the Wildman in Southeast Asia

Images of the Wildman in Southeast Asia
Author: Gregory Forth
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2008-12-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135784302

The book examines ‘wildmen’such as Homo floresiensis and ebu gogo, images of hairy humanlike creatures known to rural villagers and other local people in Southeast Asia and elsewhere. It explores the source of these representations and their status in local systems of knowledge.

Southeast Asian Lives

Southeast Asian Lives
Author: Roxana Waterson
Publisher: NUS Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789971693442

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Asian Anthropology

Asian Anthropology
Author: Jan Van Bremen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 113427100X

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 teaching tool and a valuable resource for scholars working in Asian anthropology.

Kinship, Contract, Community, and State

Kinship, Contract, Community, and State
Author: Myron L. Cohen
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2005
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780804750677

This is an anthropological exploration of the roots of China's modernity in the country's own tradition, as seen especially in economic and kinship patterns.

Displacements and Diasporas

Displacements and Diasporas
Author: Wanni Wibulswasdi Anderson
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813536118

Includes statistics.

Ethnicity as a Political Resource

Ethnicity as a Political Resource
Author: University of Cologne Forum »Ethnicity as a Political Resource«
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2015-08-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3839430135

How is ethnicity viewed by scholars of different academic disciplines? Can its emergences be compared in various regions of the world? How can it be conceptualized with specific reference to distinct historical periods? This book shows in a uniquely and innovative way the broad range of approaches to the political uses of ethnicity, both in contemporary settings and from a historical perspective. Its scope is multidisciplinary and spans across the globe. It is a suitable resource for teaching material. With its short contributions, it conveys central points of how to understand and analyze ethnicity as a political resource.

Becoming An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java

Becoming An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java
Author: Konstantinos Retsikas
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2012-08-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857285319

‘Becoming – An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java’ is an ethnographic monograph that examines the ways in which the peoples of a peri-urban locality in East Java, Indonesia conceive of the person, by looking at how their everyday practices relate to understandings of ethnicity, kinship, Islam and gender. The volume is also a thought experiment that aims to make a theoretical contribution to the discipline of anthropology by proposing the concept of the ‘diaphoron’ person and re-deploying the method of ‘total ethnography’.