Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain: Between Universalism and Indigenism

Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain: Between Universalism and Indigenism
ISBN-10
9629969033
ISBN-13
9789629969035
Category
Social Science
Pages
384
Language
English
Published
2012-02-03
Publisher
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Authors
Arif Dirlik, Guannan Li, Hsiao-pei Yen

Description

Within this text, the contributors provide a historical perspective on the development of anthropology and sociology since their introduction to Chinese thought and education in the early twentieth century, with an emphasis on the 1930s and 1980s. The authors offer different windows on theoretical and research agendas of anthropologists and sociologists of the PRC and Taiwan, shaped as much by their political context as by disciplinary training. In examining the careers of several individual scholars, they also make note not only of their creative contributions, but also of the resonance of their intellectual concerns with contemporary issues in sociology and anthropology (culturalism, frontiers, women). Finally, the volume is organized loosely around the problem of how to translate these disciplines into a Chinese context(s), the issues of "indigenization" (bentuhua) or "making Chinese" (Zhongguohua), which have haunted the two disciplines since their establishment in the 1930s because of the contradictory expectations that they generate. This is where the case of China resonates with similar concerns in other societies where the disciplines were imported from abroad as products of a Euro/American capitalist modernity, conflicting with aspirations to create their own localized alternative modernities.

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