Looking through Taiwan : American anthropologists' collusion with ethnic domination

Author(s)

• Hong, Keelung
• Murray, Stephen O.

Bibliographic Information

Looking through Taiwan : American anthropologists' collusion with ethnic domination

Keelung Hong & Stephen O. Murray

（Critical studies in the history of anthropology series）

University of Nebraska Press, c2005

• : cloth

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-156) and index

Contents of Works

• Experiences of being a "native" observing anthropology
• A brief overview of American anthropologists' investigation of "others" before 1955
• A brief overview of the history of governing Taiwan
• A case study of pseudo-objectivity : the Hoover Institution analysis of 1947 resistance and repression
• Some American witnesses to the KMT's 1947 reign of terror on Taiwan
• Studies of KMT-imposed land reform
• American anthropologists looking through Taiwan to see "traditional" China, 1950-1990
• A Taiwanese woman who became a spirit medium : native and alien models of how Taiwanese identify spirit possession
• The non-obliteration of Taiwanese women's names
• The aftermath : fleeing democratization
• Conclusion

Details

• NCID: BA77320631
• ISBN:
  • 0803224354
• LCCN: 2005006497
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Lincoln
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 161 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GN635.T28
  • DC22 : 306
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Ethnology -- Taiwan -- History
  • LCSH : Ethnology -- Taiwan -- Field work
  • LCSH : Ethnologists -- United States -- Attitudes
  • LCSH : Ethnologists -- Taiwan -- Attitudes
  • LCSH : Taiwan -- Foreign public opinion
  • LCSH : Taiwan -- Foreign relations -- United States
  • LCSH : United States -- Foreign relations -- Taiwan
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA52017407