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2013 Hsu Book Prize: Depression in Japan

December 19, 2013 by Fuji Lozada

kitanakaJunko Kitanaka’s book, Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress, presents a fascinating story of the use of biologizing discourses to make “patients” out of individuals who would otherwise resist psychological treatment.
It carefully balances the mobilization of critical cultural analysis with an understanding of the real suffering of depression that, in the hands of a less empathetic writer, could easily have become obscured.
It is based on years of research and a deep immersion in and understanding of the fields of psychiatry in both Japan and the United States.
It offers fresh and interesting theoretical insights that extend our understandings of nationalism, gender, and local-global relations.
It is also sensitively and thoughtfully written in a way that speaks to multiple audiences: not only those in Japanese studies and medical anthropology but also psychiatrists in Japan and the United States themselves.
It is a model of how one might think about how ideas and medical practices travel and yet take root in different ways in different places, revealing both links and differences among psychiatry in Japan, the United States, and Europe.

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2013 Hsu Book Prize Committee:
Vanessa Fong (Amherst), Chair
Lieba Faier (UCLA)
Laura Nelson (UC Berkeley)

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Asian Highlands Perspectives 28 published

December 18, 2013 by Fuji Lozada

The editors of Asian Highlands Perspectives are pleased to announce the publication of AHP 28, our annual essay collection for 2013. This volume contains: five original research articles from Cambodia, China (Tibetan and Pumi), and Vietnam; a selection of Tibetan folklore and original fiction; and twenty reviews of new books.

The entire volume of AHP 28 is available as a free download:
http://plateauculture.org/writing/ahp-28-entire-volume

At cost hard copies (457pp, 23.33USD) can be purchased from here.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Articles

Ian G Baird. Shifting Contexts and Performances: Brao-Kavet and Their Sacred Mountains in Northeast Cambodia.
Dpa’ mo skyid. The ‘Descent of Blessings’: Ecstasy and Revival among Tibetan Bon Communities of Reb gong.
Gerong Pincuo and Henriëtte Daudy. Too Much Loving-Kindness to Repay: Funeral Speeches of the Wenquan Pumi.
Wang Shiyong. Towards a Localized Development Approach for Tibetan Areas in China.
William Noseworthy. The Cham’s First Highland Sovereign: Po Romé (r. 1627-1651).

LITERATURE

Bsod nams ‘gyur med. Folktales from Gcig sgril.
Lhundrum. Longing for Snow-covered Peaks: Deity Possession in the Philippines.
Thub bstan. Elopement.
Ba. Lobsang Gonbo. Love in Shambala.
Pad+ma skyabs. The Price of a Thesis.
Pad ma rin chen. Scattered Memories of a Misspent Youth.
Pad ma rin chen. Conflict.

REVIEWS

Magnus Fiskesjö. Review of Naga Identities.
Paul Nietupski. Review of Scripture of the Ten Kings.
Ivette Vargas-O’Bryan. Review of Tibet – A History.
Mátyás Balogh. Review of two Mongolian Language works on the Mongols of the Gansu-Qinghai Region.
Bill Bleisch. Review of China’s Environmental Challenges.
Katia Buffetrille. Review of Le bergers du Fort Noir.
Faisal Chauhdry. Review of Islam and Tibet.
Andrew Grant. Review of The Art of Not Being Governed.
Binod Singh. Review of Recent Research on Ladakh 2009.
Christina Kilby. Review of Revisiting Rituals in a Changing Tibetan World.
Anja Reid. Review of Japanese-Mongolian Relations.
Benno Ryan Weiner. Review of China’s ‘Tibetan’ Frontiers.
Ligaya Beebe. Review of Drokpa.
Daniel Winkler. Review of Transforming Nomadic Resource Management and Livelihood Strategies.
Gregory Rohlf. Review of Explorers and Scientists in China’s Borderlands.
Jack Hayes. Review of Origins and Migrations in the Extended Eastern Himalayas.
Christopher Weedall. Review of The Sherthukpens of Arunachal Pradesh.
Zhiguo Ye. Review of Critical Han Studies.
Bina Sengar. Review of Trade and Society along the Ancient Silk Road.
Bettina Zeisler. Review of Emerging Bon.

Sincerely,
The Editors of Asian Highlands Perspectives
http://plateauculture.org/asian-highlands-perspectives
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/asianhighlandsperspectives

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Our new column editors for 2013-2015

December 17, 2013 by Fuji Lozada

seaa-column-logoAt the last business meeting in Chicago, we announced the SEAA Board’s appointment of two new editors for the SEAA column in the Anthropology News. They are Heidi Lam (Yale) and Yi Zhou (UC Davis). [Read more…]

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2013 Bestor Prize: Lesley R. Turnbull, Cornell University

November 29, 2013 by Fuji Lozada

turnbull-SD_madrassaIn Pursuit of Islamic “Authenticity”: Localizing Muslim Identity on China’s Peripheries

This essay is an ethnographic examination of the self-production of Hui-Muslim identities in Kunming, in light of state-defined nationality. With great attention to detail and a methodical pursuit of question and answers, Turnbull drew out the narratives of interlocutors and analyzed them deeply to show how claims to authenticity are shaped by the localization of an idealized Islamic tradition and Chinese modernity. For non-specialists, Turnbull was also able to contextualize interview material within a presentation of broader knowledge of specific topics. While there may have been lots of ‘imaginings’ going on by people in Kunming and Shadian, or by Beijing bureaucrats or Middle Eastern imams, Turnbull’s analysis is a convincingly written essay on the complex reality of identity politics.

2013 Bestor Prize Committee

Amy Borovoy, Chair
Fuji Lozada
Rebecca Ruhlen

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2013 Plath Prize: Peasant Family Happiness

November 29, 2013 by Fuji Lozada

农家乐 Peasant Family Happiness
Jenny Chio, Emory University
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This documentary explores the backstage efforts of locals in the world of ethnic tourism. Chio observes and documents interactions between locals and tourists with a focused yet easy rapport with members of local communities. A variety of perspectives, views and experiences are presented with appreciation for the dilemmas faced by individuals and groups who seek more stable income, material comfort and dignified living in ancestral villages. These concerns are situated against a backdrop of increased surplus disposable income and leisure time among China’s middle class, who “do tourism” in the two different villages depicted by Chio. A kinder, gentler version of Dennis O’Rourke’s acerbic Cannibal Tours, Chio’s film shows how residents negotiate with visiting Han tourists and their idealized projections of ethnic minorities.

2013 Plath Award Committee
Maris Gillette, Chair
Mark McGuire
Fuji Lozada

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2013 Hsu Book Prize: Ten Thousand Things

November 28, 2013 by Fuji Lozada

farquhar-zhangFarquhar and Zhang’s book Ten Thousand Things: Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing presents vivid descriptions and insightful and provocative analyses of Beijing residents’ everyday practices of yangsheng, a kind of self-cultivation which includes activities such as taijiquan, qigong, calisthenics, jogging, swimming, dancing, singing, meditation, chess, painting, writing, talking, learning a foreign language, and connoisieurship of tea, wine, and medicinal cuisine.
In addition to promoting personal health and well-being, these activities are also promoted as conducive to the strengthening of the Chinese nation.
By explicating the underlying cultural logic that ties these disparate kinds of activities together, this book expands conceptions of what can constitute an object of anthropological analysis, and how deep and profound meanings can be found in the everyday experiences of ordinary people.
Ten Thousand Things is also a daring, creative book that breaks new ground in possibilities for experimental ethnography and cross-national, cross-cultural collaborative engagements.
By sometimes revealing the distinct voices of Farquhar, an anthropologist in the US, and Zhang, a philosopher in China, and the dialogue between them, this book fearlessly presents schisms, disagreements and disjunctures between the perspectives of the two authors in refreshing and revealing ways, and pushes the boundaries of anthropology and ethnographic writing, opening up new possibilities for collaboration across national, linguistic, cultural, and epistemological boundaries.

Ten Thousand Things on Amazon

2013 Hsu Book Prize Committee:
Vanessa Fong (Amherst), Chair
Lieba Faier (UCLA)
Laura Nelson (UC Berkeley)

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2011 Hsu Book Prize: Li Zhang

December 7, 2011 by Fuji Lozada

2011 Hsu Prize: Li Zhang

Li Zhang (UC Davis), In Search of Paradise: Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis, Ithaca: Cornell University Press (2010) [Read more…]

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Welcome to the home of the Society for East Asian Anthropology

December 6, 2011 by Fuji Lozada

The Society for East Asian Anthropology (SEAA) is an officially recognized section within the American Anthropological Association (AAA), open to all members of the AAA, but its activities are intended to reach beyond the membership of the AAA. Any anthropologist anywhere in the world is welcome to join SEAA, to subscribe to our EASIANTH listserv, to post, and to participate. SEAA is committed to developing international channels of communication among anthropologists throughout the world. We hope to promote discussion and share information on diverse topics related to the anthropology of Taiwan; PRC; Hong Kong; Japan; Korea; other societies/cultures of Asia and the Pacific Basin with historical or contemporary ties to East Asia; transnational linkages among East Asian or between East Asian and other societies/cultures; and diasporic societies/cultures identified with East Asia.

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Welcome!

SEAA is committed to developing international channels of communication among anthropologists throughout the world. We hope to promote discussion and share information on diverse topics related to the anthropology of Taiwan, PRC, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea; other societies/cultures of Asia and the Pacific Basin with historical or contemporary ties to East Asia; and diasporic societies/cultures identified with East Asia.

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