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positions (2016) 24 (4): 761–787.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Inhye Kang Visual technologies were significant tools in the field of anthropology throughout the late nineteenth century, when they were frequently used for studying and exploring other ethnicities. This article argues that visual technologies played an active role for Japanese anthropologists...
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positions (2014) 22 (2): 461–487.
Published: 01 May 2014
...” of postcolonialism to Japan, the author situates Imafuku's idea within the lineage of Japanese anthropology intertwined with the lineage of cultural anthropology, having Japan as its field. The work of postcolonial critics such as Gayatri Spivak and Edward Said is introduced alongside an in-depth analysis...
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 543–550.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Lili Lai This collection of mostly ethnographic studies of rural China, with some contributions from the rather different discourse world of Chinese anthropology, seeks to bring into visibility the heterogeneity of life in the countryside. They argue that rural China must first and foremost...
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 635–659.
Published: 01 August 2014
... understanding of hygiene is intimately connected with environmental degradation, a perceived “dirtiness” that is not really of their own making. Grounded in anthropological field research in rural Henan, it argues that the lack of any infrastructure to dispose of trash is core to rural environmental problems...
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positions (2019) 27 (1): 241–279.
Published: 01 February 2019
... by racism in the production of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences? Above all else, racism must be apprehended as a structure of the modern world, and it is necessary to understand how it serves to repeatedly confirm the anthropological difference between European humanity and the rest...
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positions (2019) 27 (1): 175–207.
Published: 01 February 2019
... is related to or reflected in social difference. While area studies remain tenaciously tied to the geographical index of anthropological difference inherited from the colonial-imperial modernity, they are today in the business, like the rest of the humanities, of contributing to the construction...
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positions (2020) 28 (2): 277–309.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Takushi Odagiri This article examines Sōda Kazuhiro’s observational documentary, especially his second observational film, Seishin ( Mental ), and specifically considers its participatory methods, sociohistorical circumstances, and philosophical anthropology. Influenced by North American direct...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 405–434.
Published: 01 May 2012
... linked to pathways of power that flow up, down, and sideways. While Vietnamese market-oriented socialism is not always described as neoliberal, this article shows that the anthropological critique of neoliberalism offers an important model and method for understanding the situated context of geomancy...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 659–667.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Li Zhang In this essay I suggest that rather than asking whether China or Vietnam is becoming neoliberal, we might be better served by asking how Chinese or Vietnamese political and social actors make use of neoliberal ideas and techniques for their own ends. A central task of the anthropology...
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 547–577.
Published: 01 August 2013
... of Korean history or art history with material culture studies, science studies, and the phenomenological anthropology of landscape. My focus is Sǒkkuram, surely among the most extensively discussed of all Korean historic sites. Initially, I unveil a record of the temple in the unpublished papers...
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 987–1018.
Published: 01 November 2013
... of ethnic, refugee, and national subjectivities and communities as well as the hegemonic discourses that underwrite them. This essay urges an epistemological shift from the site/sight-specific approaches to race, ethnicity, and nationalism that typically dominate ethnic studies, area studies, anthropology...
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positions (2017) 25 (1): 173–194.
Published: 01 February 2017
... histories are spatially and temporally arranged. The article attempts to think of the city in Malayalam cinema as a moment of refiguration of its history and practices. The city as location in Malayalam cinema emerges as a negotiation with a specific form of realism anchored in rural anthropology put...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 143–169.
Published: 01 February 2023
... as the language of competitiveness and entrepreneurialism. While there is a growing body of literature examining the English‐learning craze as a facet of the transnational neoliberalization processes, this anthropological study focuses on the frictions generated in the encounter of English, conceived...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 27–47.
Published: 01 February 2024
... electrically in urban Vietnam, from the colonial era until today. Inspired by recent advances in the anthropology of electricity, it investigates the meanings that people have attributed to electric home appliances through the ages and asks if, how, and why some of these have come to define what it means...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 333–355.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., activist setting and the individual authors’ struggle with literary and political practice. Combining the literary technique of close reading with anthropological fieldwork, the article describes how the Group encourages and influences its members’ literary production. The works of Xiao Hai, Fan Yusu, Li...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 403–429.
Published: 01 May 2023
...-specific social and political context, the article's discussion goes beyond the call for a “literary turn” in anthropology. Instead, it argues that for scholars who are serious about understanding the emotional cost of social inequality in China, seeking partnership with China's subaltern writers...
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 523–549.
Published: 01 August 2021
... legal system often end up winning more. Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Japan family law conflict legal ideologies anthropology In the 2013 documentary film From the Shadows , Regan, a white American mother, goes to a Japanese police station to report the kidnapping of her...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 641–644.
Published: 01 August 2022
... , Dialectical Anthropology , Urban Anthropology , Anthropological Forum , and China Information , among others . Zhan is the winner of the 2020 Eduard B. Vermeer Prize for best article and is shortlisted for the 2021 Holland Prize. She is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Brutal...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 669–670.
Published: 01 May 2012
... 2012 Contributors
Erik Harms is an assistant professor of anthropology at Yale University. He has conducted
extensive eldwork on urbanization, rural- urban transitions, and civilizing processes in and
around Ho Chi...
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positions (2024) 32 (1): 217–220.
Published: 01 February 2024
... of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Global South Studies Center of the University of Cologne. Sypha Chanthavong is an environmental law lecturer and director of Graduate Programs of the Faculty of Law and Political Science at National University of Laos, based in Vientiane, Lao PDR. His...
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