Anthropology and Colonialism in Asia
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A01=Akitoshi Shimizu
A01=Jan van Bremen
Academic Anthropology
Annee Sociologique
anthropology under colonial rule
Applied Anthropology
Asian imperialism studies
Author_Akitoshi Shimizu
Author_Jan van Bremen
Category=GTM
Category=JBCC
Category=JHM
Category=NHTQ
Colonial Administration
Colonial Adminstration
Colonial Civil
Colonial Civil Servants
colonial ethnography
Cornelis Van Vollenhoven
cross-cultural comparison
dutch
Dutch Anthropology
east
East Indies
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Ethno Historical Studies
Ethnological Discourses
fieldwork methodology
indies
indigenous knowledge systems
Indonesian Nationalist Movement
Insular South East Asia
j.p.b.
Japanese social sciences
jong
josselin
leiden
Leiden School
Leiden University
malay
p.e.
Round Table
Round Table Conference
Structural Core Elements
Taihoku Imperial University
university
Van Baal
Van Den Doel
Van Ossenbruggen
Van Wouden
Zaidan Hojin
Product details
- ISBN 9780700706044
- Weight: 940g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Dec 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 colonial state. The latter saw some anthropologists' sympathy for 'the natives' as a threat, while on the other hand anthropological knowledge was used for the training of colonial officials.
The impact of the colonial situation on the formation of anthropological theories is an important if not easily answered question, and the comparison of experiences in Asia offered in this book further helps to illuminate this complex relationship.
Jan van Bremen, Akitoshi Shimizu
