Untold Stories in the History of Anthropology: Japan, Colonialism, Anglophone Hegemony, and World Anthropologies
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https://doi.org/10.46585/cargo.2024.2.48Keywords:
history of anthropology, world system of anthropology/knowledge, world anthropologies, colonialism, Ainu, Japan, East Asia AnthropologyAbstract
Because of the imbalance of power in the academic “world system,” the history of anthropology outside the central countries is rarely told. This article contributes to solving this problem by discussing the development of anthropology in Japan since the late nineteenth century and Japanese achievements in the emerging “world anthropologies” movement.
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