Southeast Asian anthropologies : national traditions and transnational practices

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Southeast Asian anthropologies : national traditions and transnational practices

edited by Eric C. Thompson and Vineeta Sinha

NUS Press, c2019

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • Concepts of Filipinos: anthropology as social science, politics and nationhood / Jose Jowel Canuday and Emma Porio
  • Cambodian anthropology : negotiating identity and change / Chivon Peou
  • Vietnamese anthropology at the crossroads of change / Nguyen Van Chinh
  • Recovering Filipino production of a maritime anthropology / Maria F. Mangahas and Suzanna Rodriguez-Roldan
  • Domesticating social anthropology in West Malaysia / Yeoh Seng-Guan
  • Documenting "anthropological work" in Singapore : the journey of a discipline / Vineeta Sinha
  • Local and transnational anthropologies of Borneo / Victor T. King and Zawawi Ibrahim
  • Boundaries and ambitions of Indonesian anthropology / Yunita T. Winarto and Iwan M. Pirous
  • Assessing Doi Moi (renovation) anthropology in Vietnam / Dang Nguyen Anh
  • The transnational anthropology of Thailand / Ratana Tosakul

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Anthropology is a flourishing discipline in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asian Anthropologies renders visible the development of national traditions and transnational practices of anthropology across the region. The authors are practising anthropologists and Southeast Asian scholars with decades of experience working in the intellectual traditions and institutions that have taken root in Southeast Asia since the mid-twentieth century.Anthropology's self-criticism of the colonial, postcolonial and neo-colonial conditions of its own production remains relevant for Southeast Asia. There has been a vigorous debate and a wide range of suggestions on what might be done to de-center the Euro-, andro-, hetero- and other centrisms of the discipline from an emerging world anthropologies perspective. But actually transforming anthropology requires practice beyond mere critique. The chapters in this volume focus on practices and paradigms of anthropologists working from and within Southeast Asia. Three overlapping issues are addressed in these pages: First, the historical development of unique traditions of research, scholarship, and social engagement across diverse anthropological communities of the region, which have adopted and adapted different anthropological trends to their local circumstances; Second, the opportunities and challenges faced by Southeast Asian anthropologists as they practise their craft in different institutional and political contexts; and Third, the emergence of locally-grounded, intra-regional, transnational linkages and practices undertaken by Southeast Asian-based anthropologists.

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