Table of Contents:
  • Anthropology in colonial contexts: a tale of two countries and some / Jan van Bremen and Akitoshi Shimizu
  • Anthropology in colonial contexts: the second Kamchatka expedition (1733-1743) and the Danish-German Arabia expedition (1761-1767) / Han F. Vermeulen
  • Academic traditions, urban dynamics and colonial threat: the rise of ethnography in early modern Japan / Margarita Winkel
  • From texts to bodies: Brian Houghton Hodgson and the emergence of ethnology in India / Peter Pels
  • Nationalist anthropology in Taiwan 1945-1996, a reflexive survey / Fred Y.L. Chiu
  • Colonialism and the development of modern anthropology in Japan / Akitoshi Shimizu
  • Assimilation from within, appropriation from without: the folklore-studies and ethnology of Ryūkyū/Okinawa / Patrick Beillevaire
  • Japanese colonialism and the investigation of Taiwanese 'old customs' / Timothy Y. Tsu
  • The natives next-door: ethnology in colonial Korea / Boudewijn Walraven
  • Japanese colonial policy and anthropology in Manchuria / Katsumi Nakao
  • Staging ethnography: theatre and Japanese colonialism / Jennifer Robertson
  • Toilet training, shame, and the influence of alien cultures: cultural anthropologists and American policy making for postwar Japan 1944-1945 / Rudolf V.A. Janssens
  • Colonial ideologies and ethnological discourses: a comparison of the United Faculties at Leiden and Utrecht / Jan de Wolf
  • Crossing borders, healing wounds: Leiden anthropology and the colonial encounter 1917-1949 / Michael Prager
  • The Japanese and Dutch anthropology of insular South-East Asia in the colonial period 1879-1949 / Jan van Bremen
  • Colonialism, anthropology and the politics of professionalisation: an argumentative afterword / Eyal Ben-Ari.