cam a22 4 4500 357404823 CHVBK 20201025000317.0 160226s2005 nbu 00 eng| 2005006497 978-0-8032-2435-3 cloth : alk. paper 0-8032-2435-4 cloth : alk. paper http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40132348k uri (IDSLU)000586934 (RERO)R008367631 DLC SzZuIDS LU LUZHB kids GN635.T28 H66 2005 s1et rero 306 22 Hong Keelung Looking through Taiwan American anthropologists' collusion with ethnic domination Keelung Hong & Stephen O. Murray Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 2005 161 S. 24 cm Critical studies in the history of anthropology Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-156) and index 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 2e de couv.: 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 an powerful critique of American anthropology and a valuable reminder of the political and ethical implications of social science research and writing. Looking through Taiwan is a critique of American anthropology and a valuable reminder of the political and ethical implications of social science research and writing."--Jacket Geschichte 1947-1990 gnd Ethnologie (DE-588)4078931-7 gnd Ethnizität (DE-588)4220764-2 gnd Soziale Wirklichkeit (DE-588)4220554-2 gnd Ethnologists Taiwan Attitudes (RERO)B026004767 Ethnologists United States Attitudes (RERO)B026004768 Ethnology Fieldwork Taiwan (RERO)B026004769 Ethnology Taiwan History (RERO)B026004770 Ethnologie (RERO)A021065263 rero Ethnologues (RERO)A021027578 rero Enquêtes de terrain (ethnologie) (RERO)A021110608 rero Opinion publique (RERO)A021065475 rero Anthropologues américains (RERO)A026053834 rero 1947-1990 (RERO)B026557979 rero Taiwan (DE-588)4017875-4 gnd USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd Taiwan Foreign public opinion (RERO)B026004771 Taiwan Foreign relations United States (RERO)B017763372 United States Foreign relations Taiwan (RERO)B017763373 Taïwan (IDREF)027463613 idref Etats-Unis (RERO)A009975208 rero u LB 48455 idslu LR Murray Stephen O. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip059/2005006497.html Table of contents BK020000 XK020000 XK020000 Metadata rights reserved rero 250 IDS LU RERO RE31011 RE31011 RE310110001 NET AsE 916 IDSLU LUZHB LUSBI SBIZB G.b 16790 IDSLU 100 1- Hong Keelung IDSLU 490 0- Critical studies in the history of anthropology IDSLU 700 1- Murray Stephen O. IDSLU 856 42 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip059/2005006497.html Table of contents RERO 100 1- Hong Keelung 1943- (IDREF)132834707 cre RERO 490 0- Critical studies in the history of anthropology RERO 700 1- Murray Stephen O. (RERO)A003620071