... is the study of ideas in history; and the anthropology of law as critical intellectual history. It broadly describes the emergence of liberal Bolivia and presents several arguments about the importance of Bolivia's legal-ideological foundations. The chapter concludes by emphasizing some points about how...

...This chapter talks about the concept of the “colonial subject” and its relation to recent writings about South Asia. It looks at the impacts of historical anthropology on writing about South Asia, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, and Subaltern Studies. The main argument in this chapter...

...This chapter considers the events where anthropology becomes a part of the nation-making project during the mid-twentieth-century in East Asia. It looks at the duality of Japanese and Chinese anthropology during a specific time frame and a process of knowledge-production during a problematic...

... reactance against the forces of colonialism. This explains why the origins of writing on excision can be traced to colonial cultural anthropology. Cultural anthropology is the first context in which female autobiography emerged in Kenya. This chapter examines these anthropological preludes to female self...

...By interweaving an ethnography of the Pusan International Film Festival, the author’s personal accounts, an overview of Korean modern history (with a focus on the emergence of the “democratic generation”), and a review of relevant anthropological literature the Introduction sheds light...

...This book explores the history of the social sciences—anthropology, human geography, and demography—in Egypt during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on both intellectual and institutional genealogies of knowledge production. In particular, it traces the development of a mode...

... within anthropology. The chapter contextualizes the tensions that scholars and practitioners of overseas labor encounter in discussing issues of culture and difference, as well as the distinction-making practices that are a part of the process of producing “Expatria.” Yet Expatria is a moving target...

...This chapter examines marriage as the secondary pattern of institutionalized sexual union among the Moso. By any useful definition in anthropology, the discussion argues that tisese cannot be taken as a form of marriage because it lacks the legal force to grant the involved parties...

...The intersection between history and anthropology is more varied now than it has ever been—a look at the shelves of bookstores and libraries proves this. Historians have increasingly looked to the methodologies of anthropologists to explain inequalities of power, problems of voicelessness...

... to live. It is argued that legal spaces and places are not merely relative in time and vary in permanence; they move and alternate with other spaces and at different paces. An anthropological perspective on space and law offers insight into the different ways in which people perceive these time-spaces...

...This chapter notes that cultural anthropology is value-centered and shares major preoccupations with the humanities. A chief objective is to identify and analyze distinctive ways of life, manifested in diverse understandings of kinship, religion, authority, and selfhood. These findings have...

...This chapter examines two philosophical origins of modern geography: Herder's philosophical anthropology and the post-Kantian Naturphilosophie. In Herder's view, geographic science appears as an elaboration of some basic anthropological figures of thought. Herder developed his...

...This chapter takes a look at how history and anthropology reveal the contingencies of knowledge-production. This refers to the terms of expertise that produce disciplinary knowledge and evidentiary-based truth claims and the servicing of such truths in the name of cultural and political projects...

...This chapter challenges the uncontested privilege of the disciplines and the interdisciplinary to explain and address the move to historical anthropology. It provides some suggestions to the ways important questions and approaches within the scholarly practice of historical anthropology...

...This chapter gives an elaboration of the will and addresses the question of whether there is an entity called “free will” or not. It looks at various cases that are seen from the perspectives of cultural anthropology. This chapter uses a literary example that takes a look at the significant...

... of culture (thaqafa) and civilization (hadara) as they were defined throughout the twentieth century, along with the emergence of new concepts such as national personality (shukhsiyyat al-umma). Egyptian anthropology sought to assume a particular role within...

...According to the originary hypothesis, humanity and its institutions are most parsimoniously described as originating in a singular event. Representation is a means to prevent the breakdown of the social order, and the first representation is that of the sacred. The current science of anthropology...

... is immersed in an ethos of which she or he feels an intimate part. Vernunft incorporates such a broad spectrum of research materials that one needs to ask whether legal reasoning is really anthropology. The eighth section discusses why this is not so; section nine explains that the identity...

...This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that, in China, ritual provided the social glue which law provided in the West. It offers a history of the special lineage institutions for which south China has been noted and argues...