ISBN:
080325136X
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9780803251366
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1281376418
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9781281376411
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (1 volume)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Online-Ausg. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library
Series Statement:
Critical studies in the history of anthropology
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Ethnology History
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Taiwan
;
Ethnology Fieldwork
;
Taiwan
;
Ethnologists Attitudes
;
United States
;
Ethnologists Attitudes
;
Taiwan
;
Ethnologie Histoire
;
Taiwan
;
Ethnologie Recherche sur le terrain
;
Taiwan
;
Ethnologues Attitudes
;
États-Unis
;
Ethnologues Attitudes
;
Taiwan
;
Ethnologie Histoire
;
Taiwan
;
Ethnologie Recherche sur le terrain
;
Taiwan
;
Ethnologists Attitudes
;
Taiwan
;
Ethnologists Attitudes
;
United States
;
Ethnologues Attitudes
;
Taiwan
;
Ethnologues Attitudes
;
États-Unis
;
Ethnology Fieldwork
;
Taiwan
;
Ethnology History
;
Taiwan
;
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
;
Taiwan
;
Taiwan Foreign public opinion
;
Taiwan Foreign relations
;
United States
;
Taiwan Opinion publique étrangère
;
Taiwan Relations extérieures
;
États-Unis
;
United States Foreign relations
;
Taiwan
;
États-Unis Relations extérieures
;
Taiwan
;
Taiwan
;
United States
;
USA
;
Taiwan
;
Electronic books History
Abstract:
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 anthropologists fail to make fundamental ethnic and political distinctions in their work. Keelung Hong and Stephen O. Murray examine how Taiwanese realities have been represented - and misrepresented - in American social science literature, especially anthropology, in the post-World War II period. They trace anthropologists' complicity in the domination of a Taiwanese majority by a Chinese minority and in its obfuscation of social realities. At the base of these distortions, the authors argue, were the mutual interests of the Republic of China's military government and American social scientists in mischaracterizing Taiwan as representative of traditional Chinese culture. American anthropologists, eager to study China but denied access by its communist government, turned instead to fieldwork on the Republic of China's society, which they incorrectly and disingenuously interpreted to reflect traditional Chinese society on the mainland. Anthropologists overlooked the cultural and historical differences between the island and the mainland and effectively legitimized the People's Republic of China's claim on Taiwan."Looking through Taiwan" is a powerful critique of American anthropology and a valuable reminder of the political and ethical implications of social science research and writing. Keelung Hong is the CEO and chairman of Taiwan Liposome Company and the co-author (with Stephen O. Murray) of "Taiwanese Culture, Taiwanese Society: A Critical Review of Social Science Research Done on Taiwan". Stephen O. Murray is the director of El Instituto Obregon in San Francisco, California, and the author of "Theory Groups in the Study of Language in North America: A Social History" and many other books
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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Description based on print version record
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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Online-Ausg. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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