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An Asian Frontier - American Anthropology and Korea, 1882-1945 (Hardcover)
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An Asian Frontier - American Anthropology and Korea, 1882-1945 (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
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In the nineteenth century the predominant focus of American
anthropology centered on the native peoples of North America, and
most anthropologists would argue that Korea during this period was
hardly a cultural area of great anthropological interest. However,
this perspective underestimates Korea as a significant object of
concern for American anthropology during the period from 1882 to
1945-otherwise a turbulent, transitional period in Korea's history.
An Asian Frontier focuses on the dialogue between the American
anthropological tradition and Korea, from Korea's first treaty with
the United States to the end of World War II, with the goal of
rereading anthropology's history and theoretical development
through its Pacific frontier. Drawing on notebooks and personal
correspondence as well as the publications of anthropologists of
the day, Robert Oppenheim shows how and why Korea became an
important object of study-with, for instance, more published about
Korea in the pages of American Anthropologist before 1900 than
would be seen for decades after. Oppenheim chronicles the actions
of American collectors, Korean mediators, and metropolitan curators
who first created Korean anthropological exhibitions for the
public. He moves on to examine anthropologists-such as Ales
Hrdlicka, Walter Hough, Stewart Culin, Frederick Starr, and Frank
Hamilton Cushing-who fit Korea into frameworks of evolution,
culture, and race even as they engaged questions of imperialism
that were raised by Japan's colonization of the country. In tracing
the development of American anthropology's understanding of Korea,
Oppenheim discloses the legacy present in our ongoing understanding
of Korea and of anthropology's past.
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