Republikánská antropologie jako komunita praxe: mezi politickou ideologií Kuomintangu a formováním národa pomocí etnografického výzkumu v jihozápadní Číně

• Authors: Jan Karlach

Title variants

EN

Republican-era anthropology as a community of practice: between the political ideology of the Kuomintang and nation-making through ethnographic research in Southwest China

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article examines the work of the first generation of Chinese anthropologists, who emulated the late-Qing intellectuals in the indigenization of colonial science through contacts with European and American colleagues. The analysis is set against the backdrop of the historical, political and ideological context of the Republic of China (1911–1949). Although the Chinese historiography ex-post profiled the anthropologists as members of two competing schools, the article argues that they rather formed a fieldwork-oriented community of practice. Within this loose community, they opened up a discursive space not only for confrontation with their common enemy during the Second SinoJapanese War but also for a critical interrogation of the racial assimilationist ethnic policies of the ruling Kuomintang. With their different approaches, the debates among them produced various conceptualizations of their common goal: a unified Chinese nation.

Keywords

EN

China; anthropology; ethnology; ethnography; Chinese nation; indigenization of science; community of practice

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 110
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 349-369
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jan Karlach

• Český lid, redakce, Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic