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Book Synopsis Dialogues, encounters and interactions through which particular ways of knowing, understanding and thinking about the world are forged lie at the centre of anthropology. Such ‘intellectual exchange’ is also central to anthropologists’ own professional practice: from their interactions with research participants and modes of pedagogy to their engagements with each other and scholars from adjacent disciplines. This collection of essays explores how such processes might best be studied cross-culturally. Foregrounding the diverse interactions, ethical reasoning, and intellectual lives of people from across the continent of Asia, the volume develops an anthropology of intellectual exchange itself.
Trade Review “This is an outstanding book … [which] provides an anthropological approach to the understanding and analysis of sociohistorical contexts which support intellectual exchanges in Asia. It is a uniquely engaging volume which not only brings together ethnographic insights from a variety of different geographical contexts but suggests novel methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of intellectual life.” • Filippo Osella, University of Sussex
“This is a bold and innovative book about the complex realities of living in a global age … It is both comprehensive in its breadth and precise in its ethnographic detail.” • Arkotong Longkumer, University of Edinburgh
Table of Contents List of Figures
Foreword
Sunil Amrith
Acknowledgements
Introduction: An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange
Nicholas J. Long, Jacob Copeman, Magnus Marsden, Lam Minh Chau and Joanna Cook
Part I. Bridging Worlds
Chapter 1. Mapping Time, Living Space: The Moral Cartography of Renovation in Late-Socialist Vietnam
Susan Bayly
Chapter 2. Worlds United and Apart: Bridging Divergence in Hanoi and Beyond
Susan Bayly
Part II: Asian Transformations and Complexities
Chapter 3. Soviet-style Apartment Blocks in Hanoi: Architecture and Intellectual Exchange
Nguyen Van Huy and Nguyen Vu Hoang
Chapter 4. Intellectual Exchanges in Muslim Asia: Intersections of History and Geography
Magnus Marsden
Chapter 5. Super Singhs and Kaurageous Kaurs: Sikh Names, Caste and Disidentity Politics
Jacob Copeman
Chapter 6. Retrieving the Muted Subject in the Early Socialist Ecumene: The Example of the Mongolian Scholar Mergen Gombojab
Caroline Humphrey
Chapter 7. Intellectual Exchange with Hands: Cosmology and Materiality in Manual Sharing Practices of an Asian Musical Instrument
Sukanya Sarbadhikary
Chapter 8. Cooking the ‘Imperialist West’: The Exchange of Non-Marxist Non-Evolutionist Ideas in Vietnamese Institutionalized Anthropology in the Pre-Renovation High-Socialist Period
Lam Minh Chau
Chapter 9. The Ideal of Intellectual Exchange: Study Abroad, Affect, and the Ambivalences of Citizenship in Post-Suharto Indonesia
Nicholas J. Long
Chapter 10. This is the End? The French Settler Community in Saigon and the Fall of Indochina in 1945
Christopher Goscha
Afterword
James Laidlaw
Index
