Asian Anthropology

Jan van Bremen was formerly Professor for the Centre for Japanese and Korean Studies in Leiden University.Eyal Ben-Ari is Professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Syed Farid Alatas is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore.

• Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Asian Anthropologies and Anthropologies in Asia: An Introductory Essay Asia 2. Indigenous and Indigenized Anthropology in Asia East Asia 3. Beyond Orthodoxy: Social and Cultural Anthropology in the People's Republic in China 4. Anthropologists of Asia, Anthropologists in Asia: The Academic Mode of Production in the Semi-Periphery 5. Native Discourse in the "Academic World System": Kunio Yanagita’s Project of Global Folkloristics Reconsidered 6. Korean Anthropology: A Search for New Paradigms South Asia 7. "Indigenizing" Anthropology in India: Problematics of Negotiating an Identity 8. An Indian Anthropology? What Kind of Object is It? South-East Asia 9. From Volkenkunde to Antropologi. The Emergence of Indonesian Anthropology in Post War Indonesia 10. Anthropology and the Nation State - Applied Anthropology in Indonesia Afterword 11. Indigenization: Features and Problems Index