<p> <em>“This is an outstanding book … [which] provides an anthropological approach to the understanding and analysis of sociohistorical contexts which support intellectual exchanges in Asia. It is a uniquely engaging volume which not only brings together ethnographic insights from a variety of different geographical contexts but suggests novel methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of intellectual life.”</em> <strong>• Filippo Osella</strong>, University of Sussex</p> <p> <em>“This is a bold and innovative book about the complex realities of living in a global age … It is both comprehensive in its breadth and precise in its ethnographic detail.”</em> <strong>• Arkotong Longkumer, </strong>University of Edinburgh</p>

Dialogues, encounters and interactions through which particular ways of knowing, understanding and thinking about the world are forged lie at the centre of anthropology. Such ‘intellectual exchange’ is also central to anthropologists’ own professional practice: from their interactions with research participants and modes of pedagogy to their engagements with each other and scholars from adjacent disciplines. This collection of essays explores how such processes might best be studied cross-culturally. Foregrounding the diverse interactions, ethical reasoning, and intellectual lives of people from across the continent of Asia, the volume develops an anthropology of intellectual exchange itself.
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List of Figures Foreword Sunil Amrith Acknowledgements Introduction: An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange Nicholas J. Long, Jacob Copeman, Magnus Marsden, Lam Minh Chau and Joanna Cook Part I. Bridging Worlds Chapter 1. Mapping Time, Living Space: The Moral Cartography of Renovation in Late-Socialist Vietnam Susan Bayly Chapter 2. Worlds United and Apart: Bridging Divergence in Hanoi and Beyond Susan Bayly Part II: Asian Transformations and Complexities Chapter 3. Soviet-style Apartment Blocks in Hanoi: Architecture and Intellectual Exchange Nguyen Van Huy and Nguyen Vu Hoang Chapter 4. Intellectual Exchanges in Muslim Asia: Intersections of History and Geography Magnus Marsden Chapter 5. Super Singhs and Kaurageous Kaurs: Sikh Names, Caste and Disidentity Politics Jacob Copeman Chapter 6. Retrieving the Muted Subject in the Early Socialist Ecumene: The Example of the Mongolian Scholar Mergen Gombojab Caroline Humphrey Chapter 7. Intellectual Exchange with Hands: Cosmology and Materiality in Manual Sharing Practices of an Asian Musical Instrument Sukanya Sarbadhikary Chapter 8. Cooking the ‘Imperialist West’: The Exchange of Non-Marxist Non-Evolutionist Ideas in Vietnamese Institutionalized Anthropology in the Pre-Renovation High-Socialist Period Lam Minh Chau Chapter 9. The Ideal of Intellectual Exchange: Study Abroad, Affect, and the Ambivalences of Citizenship in Post-Suharto Indonesia Nicholas J. Long Chapter 10. This is the End? The French Settler Community in Saigon and the Fall of Indochina in 1945 Christopher Goscha Afterword James Laidlaw Index
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“This is an outstanding book … [which] provides an anthropological approach to the understanding and analysis of sociohistorical contexts which support intellectual exchanges in Asia. It is a uniquely engaging volume which not only brings together ethnographic insights from a variety of different geographical contexts but suggests novel methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of intellectual life.” • Filippo Osella, University of Sussex “This is a bold and innovative book about the complex realities of living in a global age … It is both comprehensive in its breadth and precise in its ethnographic detail.” • Arkotong Longkumer, University of Edinburgh
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781805390701
Publisert
2023-09-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Berghahn Books
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
326

Biographical note

Jacob Copeman is Research Professor at University of Santiago de Compostela. He co-edited the volume Global Sceptical Publics: From Non-religious Print Media to ‘Digital Atheism’ (UCL Press, 2022) with Mascha Schulz.