ANTHROPOLOGY OF ASIA SERIES
Series editor
Grant Evans
University of Hong Kong
Asia today is one of the most dynamic regions of the world. The previously predominant image of 'timeless peasants' has given way to the image of fast-paced business people, mass consumerism and high-rise urban conglomerations. Yet much discourse remains entrenched in the polarities of 'East vs. West', 'Tradition vs Change'. This series hopes to provide a forum for anthropological studies which break with such polarities. It will publish titles dealing with cosmopolitanism, cultural identity, representations, arts and performance. The complexities of urban Asia, its elites, its political rituals, and its families will also be explored.
Dangerous Blood, Refined Souls
Death Rituals among the Chinese in Singapore
Tong Chee Kiong
Folk Art Potters of Japan
Beyond an Anthropology of Aesthetics
Brian Moeran
Hong Kong
The Anthropology of a Chinese Metropolis
Edited by Grant Evans and Maria Tarn
First published 1999
by Taylor & Francis
Richmond, Surrey
Richmond, Surrey
http://www.routledgecurzon.co.uk
1999 Jan van Bremen and Akitoshi Shimizu
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Reprinted 2000
Transferred to Digital Printing 2005
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ISBN: 0-7007-0604-6
Cover illustration: The anthropologist Torii Ryazo (1870-1953) travelling through lawless territory in the mountains of Southern Manchuria in 1950. The Japanese army stationed in the area provided the guards and the means of transportation (photograph reproduced by courtesy of the University Museum in the University of Tokyo).
Notes on contributors
Patrick BEILLEVAIRE, charg de recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and member of the Japan Research Centre of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), now specializing in Okinawan history and anthropology. Recent publication: 'Scholars, officers and Missionaries: A history of French sources on Ryukyii,' followed by 'General bibliography of Ryky-related books and articles published in French,' in Josef Kreiner (ed.), Sources of Rykyan History and Culture in European Collections, Miinchen, Iducium Verlag, 1996.
Eyal BEN-ARI is associate professor and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests focus on Japanese society and culture and the anthropology of the military. His recent publications include Body Projects in Japanese Childcare: Culture, Organisation and Emotions in a Preschool (London: Curzon 1997), and Mastering Soldiers: Conflict, Emotions and the Enemy in an Israeli Military Unit (Oxford: Berghahn Books 1998).
Jan van BREMEN is an anthropologist and intellectual historian in the Centre for Japanese Studies in Leiden University. With D.R Martinez he edited Ceremony and ritual in Japan: religious practices in an industrialized society, a book published by Routledge in London in 1995 (last reprinted 1997). With E. Ben-Ari and A.B. Shamsul he is presently editing a volume of studies about anthropology in a number of Asian countries.
Yen Liang (Fred) CHIU is associate professor at Hong Kong Baptist University. He has taught courses on ideologies and social movements, qualitative research methods, anthropology of work and industry, anthropological analyses of organization and management. He is the author of many articles, essays, and critical reviews, and is one of the founding members of Taiwan: A Journal of Radical Social Science (Taipei), Tiananmen Review (Hong Kong), Alternative Discourses (Hong Kong). He is currently finalizing a book manuscript on historicities and moral politics involved in industrial conflicts in multinational corporations in Hong Kong.
Rudolf JANSSENS is lecturer in International Relations at the Royal Netherlands Naval College. His contribution is based on the research for his book 'What Future for Japan? U.S. Wartime Planning for the Postwar Era, 1942-1945 (Amsterdam & Atlanta, GA: Editions Rodopi 1995). His other publications deal with topics such as the history of Japanese Studies in the United States, contemporary U.S.-Japan relations, American foreign policy, and American presidential elections.
Katsumi NAKAO is a social anthropologist in the Department of Human Relations in Wak University in Tokyo. He studies Chinese society but is also publishing studies of Japanese anthropology in the colonial period. A recent publication is 'The organization and activities of the Institute of Ethnology: Japanese Ethnology during the Second World War,' in The Japanese Journal of Ethnology Vol. 62 No. 3, 1997.
Peter PELS (Ph.D. Anthropology, Amsterdam, 1993) lectures at the Research Centre Religion and Society, University of Amsterdam, and is a research fellow of the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research. He edited, with Lorraine Nencel, Constructing Knowledge: Authority and Critique in Social Science (Sage 1991) and, with Oscar Salemink, Colonial Ethnographies (special issue of History and Anthropology, Vol. 8, 1994), and wrote A Politics of Presence, Contacts between Missionaries and Waluguru in Late Colonial Tanganyika (Harwood Academic Publishers 1998). After doing research on the colonial ethnography of South Asia, he is now again working on the historical anthropology of Tanganyika. He is also interested in the interconnections between anthropology and occultism in nineteenth century Britain.
Michael PRAGER (1962) is lecturer at the Institute of Ethnology of the University of Minister. Among his recent publications are articles on the history of anthropology and social theory, and on the ethnography of Southeast Asia. With Pieter ter Keurs he co-edited (1998) a book on W.H. Rassers' analysis of the Batak magic staff. The English translation of his monograph on the history of the Leiden structuralist school is currently under preparation. His current research interests include the cosmology and social structure of eastern Indonesian societies, and the history of French social theory.
