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An Asian Frontier: American Anthropology and Korea, 1882-1945 by Robert Oppenhei
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- ISBN-13
- 9780803285613
- Book Title
- An Asian Frontier
- ISBN
- 9780803285613
- Subject Area
- History, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Asian Frontier : American Anthropology and Korea, 1882-1945
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Subject
- Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General, Asia / Korea, Customs & Traditions
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Series
- Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Item Weight
- 29.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 450 Pages
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In the nineteenth century the predominant focus of American anthropology centered on the native peoples of North America, and most anthropologists would argue that Korea during this period was hardly a cultural area of great anthropological interest. However, this perspective underestimates Korea as a significant object of concern for American anthropology during the period from 1882 to 1945--otherwise a turbulent, transitional period in Korea's history. An Asian Frontier focuses on the dialogue between the American anthropological tradition and Korea, from Korea's first treaty with the United States to the end of World War II, with the goal of rereading anthropology's history and theoretical development through its Pacific frontier. Drawing on notebooks and personal correspondence as well as the publications of anthropologists of the day, Robert Oppenheim shows how and why Korea became an important object of study--with, for instance, more published about Korea in the pages of American Anthropologist before 1900 than would be seen for decades after. Oppenheim chronicles the actions of American collectors, Korean mediators, and metropolitan curators who first created Korean anthropological exhibitions for the public. He moves on to examine anthropologists--such as Ales Hrdlicka, Walter Hough, Stewart Culin, Frederick Starr, and Frank Hamilton Cushing--who fit Korea into frameworks of evolution, culture, and race even as they engaged questions of imperialism that were raised by Japan's colonization of the country. In tracing the development of American anthropology's understanding of Korea, Oppenheim discloses the legacy present in our ongoing understanding of Korea and of anthropology's past.
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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
0803285612
ISBN-13
9780803285613
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219077796
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
450 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Asian Frontier : American Anthropology and Korea, 1882-1945
Publication Year
2016
Subject
Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General, Asia / Korea, Customs & Traditions
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History, Social Science
Series
Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
29.5 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2015-048895
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
" An Asian Frontier makes a novel contribution to the history of anthropology and to the history of the study of Korea. . . . Interesting, provocative, and singular."--Laura Nelson, associate professor of women's and gender studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Measured Excess: Status, Gender, and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea, An Asian Frontier makes a novel contribution to the history of anthropology and to the history of the study of Korea... Interesting, provocative, and singular." -Laura Nelson, author of Measured Excess: Status, Gender, and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea, "For its original, learned, and well-crafted studies of diffusionist and evolutionist anthropology as actually practiced, An Asian Frontier should be required reading for all historians of the discipline. . . . This wide-ranging study locates the origins of American anthropological knowledge about Korea in an imperial context, while avoiding the temptation to treat its founders as two-dimensional villains. With reference to an impressive array of documentation, Oppenheim situates their activities within immediate institutional settings and the trajectories of individual scientific careers. . . . An Asian Frontier demonstrates that Koreans from many walks of life participated in the politically consequential battles to shape the picture of Korea in US anthropological circles and beyond."--Paul D. Barclay, Pacific Affairs, "Oppenheim's research and writing are informed by sophisticated perspectives on how science is done and its results communicated. . . . A major contribution to seeing non-Americanist work during the time in which museums and university departments of anthropology began."--Stephen O. Murray, director of El Instituto Obregn in San Francisco and coauthor of Looking Through Taiwan: American Anthropologists' Collusion with Ethnic Domination, " An Asian Frontier is a subtle and revealing study of the interplay between disciplinary centers of theory and ethnographic encounters, a relationship that lays at the heart of almost all anthropology."--Ira Jacknis, Anthropological Quarterly, "Through showing how difference was constructed, categorized and represented in relation to notions of white supremacy An Asian Frontier is the story of anthropology and its often complex, sometimes troubling relationship to the people who fall within the gaze of the ethnographer. Oppenheim has written a fascinating account of the early days of anthropological engagement with what was, at the time in the U.S, a largely unknown part of the world."--Markus Bell, European Journal of Korean Studies, " An Asian Frontier makes a novel contribution to the history of anthropology and to the history of the study of Korea. . . . Interesting, provocative, and singular."--Laura Nelson, associate professor of women's and gender studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Measured Excess: Status, Gender, and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
306.0973/09519
Lc Classification Number
Gn17.3.U6o77 2016
Table of Content
List of Figures Series Editors' Introduction Acknowledgments Note on Editorial Method Introduction: Tracings of Discipline and Shadows of Area 1. Anthropological Collecting Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Korea 2. Ceramic Economies 3. From China in America to Korea in Chicago 4. Orientalist against Orientalism 5. The Anthropologist without Qualities 6. Worlding Korea from Without and Within 7. Interwar Asymmetries of Race and Anti-imperialism Conclusion: Legacies Source Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2016
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