Asian anthropologyPub Date : 2021-09-20DOI: 10.1080/1683478X.2021.1970709
Marco Montagner
{"title":"African transnational mobility in China: Africans on the move","authors":"Marco Montagner","doi":"10.1080/1683478X.2021.1970709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1683478X.2021.1970709","url":null,"abstract":"may interpret as Chinese government propaganda but do indeed learn the Chinese language to varying degrees and do indeed learn much from the fellow globalized humanity of their Chinese teachers. Since this ethnography is limited in its scope, it hardly negates Sahlins’ critique, but it does vividly show the human and more complex dimension of Confucius Classrooms in one particular American setting. I have criticisms of Hubbert’s book – in particular, I wish that she had focused more fully on American students of Asian ancestry and particularly of Chinese ancestry, because their experiences of Confucius Classrooms were no doubt significantly different in many respects than those of students of European background. Still, I highly recommend this book. In the highly charged world of global political rivalry that we are now in, Hubbert provides a nuanced portrayal of how Confucius Classrooms in the United States actually work in practice. This is a valuable contribution, showing the value of ethnography in enabling us to better understand the variegated micro-complexities of global ideological conflict.","PeriodicalId":34948,"journal":{"name":"Asian anthropology","volume":"20 1","pages":"292 - 294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41676504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian anthropologyPub Date : 2021-08-20DOI: 10.1080/1683478X.2021.1968106
Indigo Willing
{"title":"Skateboarding and urban landscapes in Asia: endless spots","authors":"Indigo Willing","doi":"10.1080/1683478X.2021.1968106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1683478X.2021.1968106","url":null,"abstract":"Skate films, video clips and media about skateboarding in Asia produced in the West can be a mixed journey, especially in terms of the quality of Asian representation in these productions. When loc...","PeriodicalId":34948,"journal":{"name":"Asian anthropology","volume":"20 1","pages":"282 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48019349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian anthropologyPub Date : 2021-08-06DOI: 10.1080/1683478X.2021.1936731
Hang Kei Ho
{"title":"Why has wine consumption become popular in Hong Kong? Introducing a new sociocultural paradigm of traditional, aspiring and creative drinkers","authors":"Hang Kei Ho","doi":"10.1080/1683478X.2021.1936731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1683478X.2021.1936731","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Although Hong Kong has become one of the most valuable wine trading hubs in the world since the withdrawal of the wine duty in February 2008, relatively little is known about how and why local consumers drink wine. Drawing on Bourdieu’s notions of “connoisseur,” “pedant,” and “proletarian,” this article introduces a paradigm of three drinking practices in Hong Kong: established, aspiring and creative. It further introduces the concept of “third indigenization” – the combining of products from two or more places of origin, and subsequently creating a new product in a third place. Methodologically, the analysis of marketing materials, ethnographies, interviews and focus groups conducted in Hong Kong provides a basis for exploring the sociocultural and geographical meanings of wine. This article discusses how wine consumption is popular because it conveys the idea of being globalized, allows the display of wealth, and expresses the idea of having cultural capital. Significantly, this article challenges popular Anglo-Eurocentric understandings of consumption practices and provides a broader and more flexible approach to cultural analysis: it makes conceptual and methodological and contributions to consumer research and to the sociology and geography of wine.","PeriodicalId":34948,"journal":{"name":"Asian anthropology","volume":"20 1","pages":"248 - 268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1683478X.2021.1936731","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47422827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian anthropologyPub Date : 2021-07-06DOI: 10.1080/1683478X.2021.1943158
Christopher S. Thompson
{"title":"From tragedy to triumph: tsunami mitigation and Bōsai (disaster prevention) tourism in Tarō, Japan","authors":"Christopher S. Thompson","doi":"10.1080/1683478X.2021.1943158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1683478X.2021.1943158","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Tarō is one of many small fishing communities on the northeastern coast of Iwate Prefecture which was decimated by Japan’s catastrophic tsunami on 11 March 2011. Historically, in most parts of the world, including Japan, post-disaster sightseeing has often been portrayed as a form of Dark Tourism emphasizing death, loss and devastation. However, in Tarō, community-led tourism post-2011 has become the catalyst for a positive, fortifying, identity-building economic development strategy infused by hope for the future referred to locally as Bōsai (Disaster Prevention) Tourism. Using an ethnographic approach, this paper argues that, unlike many post-disaster tourism sites, Bōsai Tourism in Tarō builds around place-based practices and traditional community knowledge to provide a positive, satisfying touristic experience for visitors, and gives local residents unprecedented yet tangible social, economic, and political goals to strive for as they embrace the future, designed to transform local tragedy into a local triumph.","PeriodicalId":34948,"journal":{"name":"Asian anthropology","volume":"20 1","pages":"231 - 247"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1683478X.2021.1943158","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48004526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian anthropologyPub Date : 2021-06-08DOI: 10.1080/1683478X.2021.1930468
Xiaobo Yuan
{"title":"Refusing educational desire: negotiating faith and precarity at an underground Chinese Christian school","authors":"Xiaobo Yuan","doi":"10.1080/1683478X.2021.1930468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1683478X.2021.1930468","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In the last decade, a Reformed Christian education movement has grown among urban underground churches in China, with the emergence of unsanctioned religious schools that reject state-run educational institutions, secular curricula, and nationalized examinations. At one such underground Christian school in Nanjing, participants actively refuse normative educational desires and work to construct alternative horizons of aspiration for their children. They do so by cultivating children as “little sinners,” challenging mainstream discourses that emphasize education as a means to produce “quality” citizens and gain access to social mobility and economic security. Drawing on ethnographic research on the everyday life of an underground school, this article demonstrates how Christian communities deploy an “ethics of refusal” to resignify the terms of educational striving around the cultivation of spiritual sensitivities.","PeriodicalId":34948,"journal":{"name":"Asian anthropology","volume":"20 1","pages":"190 - 209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1683478X.2021.1930468","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45235162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian anthropologyPub Date : 2021-04-20DOI: 10.1080/1683478X.2021.1873505
Paul M. Capobianco
{"title":"African presentations and Japanese discourses: the construction and projection of difference","authors":"Paul M. Capobianco","doi":"10.1080/1683478X.2021.1873505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1683478X.2021.1873505","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines the different ways Africans present themselves in Japan and considers what these differences explain about the function of ethno-racial categories and discourses in the Japanese context. Specifically, it highlights the importance of cultural factors in shaping the ways Japanese discourses conceptualize and engage categorical difference, as well as the limitations of examining difference in solely racial or ethnic terms. This article considers data from Africans who present themselves as being from places other than continental Africa and demonstrates how these presentations elucidate the dynamic cultural, geographic, socioeconomic, and contextual variables that inform how Japanese discourses construct cultural Otherness. In constructing such Otherness, Japanese discourses project domestic identity ideologies differently onto foreign populations, which simultaneously highlight the functionality of these ideologies. This article suggests that by constructing Otherness in such ways, Japanese discourses are able to reconceptualize notions of domestic Japanese identity in a renewed sense within a global framework.","PeriodicalId":34948,"journal":{"name":"Asian anthropology","volume":"20 1","pages":"113 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1683478X.2021.1873505","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47691396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian anthropologyPub Date : 2021-04-20DOI: 10.1080/1683478x.2020.1861702
Tomomi Shigefuji
{"title":"International labor migrants: longline tuna fishing in the Pacific Ocean","authors":"Tomomi Shigefuji","doi":"10.1080/1683478x.2020.1861702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1683478x.2020.1861702","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract International labor migrants have been widely studied, particularly on land. However, this anthropological research aims to shed light on the working and living conditions of labor migrants at sea, in the longline fishing industry on the Pacific Ocean based out of Honolulu, Hawaii. When working on a fishing boat, labor migrants encounter two distinct working environments: at port and in international waters. This report will focus on the second of these, a place impossible to monitor and therefore where labor laws have little sway. Rather, the captain plays an integral and important role when it comes to how these workers are treated, and as regards the quality of their working and living conditions.","PeriodicalId":34948,"journal":{"name":"Asian anthropology","volume":"20 1","pages":"133 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1683478x.2020.1861702","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48838594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian anthropologyPub Date : 2021-04-12DOI: 10.1080/1683478X.2021.1908195
Bryce O. Anderson
{"title":"Seeing like a child: inheriting the Korean war","authors":"Bryce O. Anderson","doi":"10.1080/1683478X.2021.1908195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1683478X.2021.1908195","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34948,"journal":{"name":"Asian anthropology","volume":"20 1","pages":"286 - 287"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1683478X.2021.1908195","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46831797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian anthropologyPub Date : 2021-03-29DOI: 10.1080/1683478X.2021.1899564
G. Mathews
{"title":"China in the world: an anthropology of Confucius Institutes, soft power, and globalization","authors":"G. Mathews","doi":"10.1080/1683478X.2021.1899564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1683478X.2021.1899564","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34948,"journal":{"name":"Asian anthropology","volume":"20 1","pages":"290 - 292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1683478X.2021.1899564","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43814332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}