Syed Farid Alatas is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore.Īnthropology of Asia series Edited by Shaun Malarney International Christian University, JapanĪsia today is one of the most dynamic regions of the world. Eyal Ben-Ari is Professor of Anthropology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Jan van Bremen is Professor at the Centre for Japanese and Korean Studies in Leiden University. With chapters written by an international group of experts in the field, Asian Anthropology will be a useful teaching tool and a fascinating resource for scholars working in Asian anthropology. Instead of assuming a universal standard or trajectory for the development of anthropology in Asia, the contributors to this volume begin with the appropriate premise that anthropologies in different Asian countries have developed and continue to develop according to their own internal dynamics.
Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology, and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia.
