Through the looking glasses and anthropology comes 'Home': globalising the view on European cultures

Shortly after being confirmed as the new co-editor of AJEC, I attended the annual meeting of the East Asian Anthropological Association. With an institutional base in Singapore, there are not many anthropology meetings within easy reach, but EAAA meets most autumns; and the meeting of 2023, held in...

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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1796472024-08-17T16:56:59Z Through the looking glasses and anthropology comes 'Home': globalising the view on European cultures Cash, Jennifer R. School of Humanities Arts and Humanities Globalising European Cultures Shortly after being confirmed as the new co-editor of AJEC, I attended the annual meeting of the East Asian Anthropological Association. With an institutional base in Singapore, there are not many anthropology meetings within easy reach, but EAAA meets most autumns; and the meeting of 2023, held in Hong Kong, was the third meeting I had attended since 2018. This year's meeting started with an open forum, as the existing leadership announced its desire to recruit junior colleagues and set a fresh and vibrant agenda for the coming years. Many hands were raised; and as voices accented from across the globe spoke of the isolation of Asian perspectives on anthropology, and of the marginality of East Asia to the global discipline, I was reminded strongly of the many marginalities so often voiced by anthropologists of Europe. Published version 2024-08-14T02:53:05Z 2024-08-14T02:53:05Z 2024 Journal Article Cash, J. R. (2024). Through the looking glasses and anthropology comes 'Home': globalising the view on European cultures. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, 33(1), 5-9. https://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2024.330101a 1755-2923 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179647 10.3167/ajec.2024.330101a 2-s2.0-85196510710 1 33 5 9 en Anthropological Journal of European Cultures © The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License. application/pdf
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Through the looking glasses and anthropology comes 'Home': globalising the view on European cultures
description Shortly after being confirmed as the new co-editor of AJEC, I attended the annual meeting of the East Asian Anthropological Association. With an institutional base in Singapore, there are not many anthropology meetings within easy reach, but EAAA meets most autumns; and the meeting of 2023, held in Hong Kong, was the third meeting I had attended since 2018. This year's meeting started with an open forum, as the existing leadership announced its desire to recruit junior colleagues and set a fresh and vibrant agenda for the coming years. Many hands were raised; and as voices accented from across the globe spoke of the isolation of Asian perspectives on anthropology, and of the marginality of East Asia to the global discipline, I was reminded strongly of the many marginalities so often voiced by anthropologists of Europe.
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title_short Through the looking glasses and anthropology comes 'Home': globalising the view on European cultures
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