Description Anthropology is a flourishing discipline in Southeast Asia.
Vineeta Sinha is head of the Department of Sociology and the South Asian Studies Programme at the National University of Singapore..
Thompson is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore.
About the Author Eric C.
It is a much-needed assessment of the state of the discipline that will be an invaluable tool for anthropologists navigating a new era of development and challenges.
It addresses three overlapping issues: the historical development of unique Traditions of research, scholarship, and social engagement across diverse anthropological communities of the region; the opportunities and challenges faced by Southeast Asian anthropologists as they practice their craft in different institutional and political contexts; and the emergence of locally grounded, intraregional, transNational linkages and Practices undertaken by Southeast Asian-based anthropologists.
Southeast Asian Anthropologies outlines the Practices and paradigms of anthropologists working from and within Southeast Asia.
But actually transforming anthropology requires going beyond mere critique.
There has been a vigorous debate and a wide range of suggestions on what might be done to break from the Euro-, andro-, hetero-, and other centrisms of the discipline and move to an emerging world anthropologies perspective.
Anthropologists in the region spent the second half of the twentieth century establishing the field, and now, as we move further into the twenty-first century, a new generation is working to shift the discipline from European and American narratives to a Southeast Asian locus.
Description Anthropology is a flourishing discipline in Southeast Asia
