East Asian Anthropology in the World

The fact that the world has multiple anthropologies has become increasingly recognized over the past decade. There is a greater awareness in the United States and Western Europe that anthropology is not only a Euro-American endeavor but also a global endeavor, and there is a growing understanding of...

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Published in:American anthropologist 2015-06, Vol.117 (2), p.364-372
Main Author: Mathews, Gordon
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
21st century
Anthropological methodology
Anthropological research
Anthropologists
Anthropology
Asia
Chinese
Consciousness
Far East
Globalization
Hong Kong
North-South relations
United Kingdom
United States of America
Western Europe
WORLD ANTHROPOLOGY
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Summary:The fact that the world has multiple anthropologies has become increasingly recognized over the past decade. There is a greater awareness in the United States and Western Europe that anthropology is not only a Euro-American endeavor but also a global endeavor, and there is a growing understanding of the various kinds of anthropology practiced around the world. One sign of this is the growing number of publications discussing world anthropologies, with numerous books and articles in recent years that explore different aspects of global anthropologies, often to considerable discussion (see, to name just a few of these, Boskovic 2008; Restrepo and Escobar 2005; Ribeiro 2006; Ribeiro and Escobar 2006). A number of these contributions specifically relate to the situation of anthropology in East Asia (Kuwayama 1997, 2004a, 2004b; Yamashita et al. 2004b). A second sign of this is that many major Anglo-American anthropological publications have in the past few years added international anthropologists to their editorial boards; anthropologists not based in the United States or United Kingdom but, rather, from all around the world -- not least East Asia. A third sign of this is the growing awareness in the American Anthropological Association itself of global anthropology, as evidenced by the new World Anthropology section of the American Anthropologist for which I am writing this article. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:0002-7294
1548-1433
DOI:10.1111/aman.12237