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100 1 $aHong, Keelung,$d1943-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93051074
245 10 $aLooking through Taiwan :$bAmerican anthropologists' collusion with ethnic domination /$cKeelung Hong & Stephen O. Murray.
260 $aLincoln :$bUniversity of Nebraska Press,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $aix, 161 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aCritical studies in the history of anthropology
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [129]-156) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tExperiences of being a "native" observing anthropology --$g2.$tA brief overview of American anthropologists' investigation of "others" before 1955 --$g3.$tA brief overview of the history of governing Taiwan --$g4.$tA case study of pseudo-objectivity : The Hoover Institution analysis of 1947 resistance and repression --$g5.$tSome American witnesses to the KMT's 1947 reign of terror on Taiwan --$g6.$tStudies of KMT-imposed land reform --$g7.$tAmerican anthropologists looking through Taiwan to see "traditional" China, 1950-1990 --$g8.$tA Taiwanese woman who became a spirit medium : native and alien models of how Taiwanese identify spirit possession --$g9.$tThe non-obliteration of Taiwanese women's names --$g10.$tThe aftermath : fleeing democratization.
520 1 $a"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 critique of American anthropology and a valuable reminder of the political and ethical implications of social science research and writing."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEthnology$zTaiwan$xHistory.
650 0 $aEthnology$xFieldwork$zTaiwan.
650 0 $aEthnologists$zUnited States$xAttitudes.
650 0 $aEthnologists$zTaiwan$xAttitudes.
651 0 $aTaiwan$xForeign public opinion.
651 0 $aTaiwan$xForeign relations$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117224
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zTaiwan.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100140
700 1 $aMurray, Stephen O.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82260494
830 0 $aCritical studies in the history of anthropology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00090744
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip059/2005006497.html
852 00 $beal$hGN635.T28$iH66 2005
852 00 $bbar,stor$hGN635.T28$iH66 2005