Society for East Asian Anthropology Timothy Gitzen November 28, 2018 Editor’s Note: This piece opens a SEAA column themed series on “Cultural Consumption and Performance in Asia.” The articles highlight different aspects of consumption and performance in a range of Asian regions. They examine issues such as cultural curation, the uses of the past, material culture, […]
Announcing the SEAA regional conference in August 2019, Tokyo
Society for East Asian Anthropology Regional Conference 2019 – Tokyo East Asian Anthropology Now and into the Future: Transformations, Dynamics, and Challenges The region of East Asia offers a fertile ground for anthropologists who seek to understand the pulse of a new modernity, whether it be the effects of economic restructuring, new modes of living […]
A Seductive Power Disturbing #MeToo
Shanni Zhao Echoing the global #MeToo movement, Chinese social media have raised a new wave of debates on issues of sexual harassment in Chinese educational institutions. Most critiques attend to the unequal power relations in which faculty members offer scholarly opportunities or advancement in exchange for sexual contacts with students, mostly female. Student victims and […]
Looking Ahead by Going Back
Looking Ahead by Going Back The Sections Edition: Society for East Asian Anthropology Jennifer RobertsonJuly 18, 2018 Japanese robotics is imagineering a future dominated by nostalgia and nationalism. “Chair of the Future.” Seventy years ago, Margaret Mead confirmed her futurist leanings by proposing that universities should promote the study of profound social transformations by appointing […]
Culture and Mind in Moral Development in China
Society for East Asian Anthropology Jing Xu June 27, 2018 Why don’t Chinese socializers want their children to be compassionate and altruistic, or, at least, not too much? Why don’t young children share things in an egalitarian fashion, despite being told to do so by teachers and parents? Do these singleton children take for granted […]
Letter from SEAA President Glenda Roberts
Society for East Asian Anthropology Glenda S. Roberts May 7, 2018 Greetings from Paris! The theme of the summer issue of AN, Anthropological Futures, has been much on my mind as I took up residence in this historic city far from my home in Tokyo. So why does an anthropologist who has spent nearly her entire […]