Looking through Taiwan : American anthropologists' collusion with ethnic domination /

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Anthropologists have long sought to extricate their work from the policies and agendas of those who dominate - and often oppress - their native subjects. "Looking through Taiwan" is an uncompromising look at a troubling chapter in American anthropology that reveals what happens when anthro...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hong, Keelung, 1943-
Other Authors: Murray, Stephen O.
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2005.
Series:Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1947-1990.
Geschichte 1947-1955.
Ethnology > Taiwan > History.
Ethnology > Fieldwork > Taiwan.
Ethnologists > United States > Attitudes.
Ethnologists > Taiwan > Attitudes.
Ethnology > Taiwan > Fieldwork.
Ethnologie > Taiwan > Histoire.
Ethnologie > Taiwan > Recherche sur le terrain.
Ethnologues > États-Unis > Attitudes.
Ethnologues > Taiwan > Attitudes.
Ethnologie > Recherche sur le terrain > Taiwan.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Ethnologists > Attitudes
Ethnology
Ethnology > Fieldwork
Diplomatic relations
Public opinion
Anthropologie
Ethnizität
Soziale Wirklichkeit
Taiwan > Foreign public opinion.
Taiwan > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Taiwan.
Taiwan > Opinion publique étrangère.
Taiwan > Relations extérieures > États-Unis.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures > Taiwan.
Taiwan
United States
USA
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Experiences of being a "native" observing anthropology
  • A brief overview of American anthropologists' investigation of "others" before 1955
  • A brief overview of the history of governing Taiwan
  • A case study of pseudo-objectivity : the Hoover Institution analysis of 1947 resistance and repression
  • Some American witnesses to the KMT's 1947 reign of terror on Taiwan
  • Studies of KMT-imposed land reform
  • American anthropologists looking through Taiwan to see "traditional" China, 1950-1990
  • A Taiwanese woman who became a spirit medium : native and alien models of how Taiwanese identify spirit possession
  • The non-obliteration of Taiwanese women's names
  • The aftermath : fleeing democratization
  • Conclusion.

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