An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange: Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond: 15 (WYSE Series in Social Anthropology, 15)

ISBN 10: 1805390708 ISBN 13: 9781805390701

Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2023

Synopsis

Dialogues, encounters and interactions through which particular ways of knowing, understanding and thinking about the world are forged lie at the centre of anthropology. Such ‘intellectual exchange’ is also central to anthropologists’ own professional practice: from their interactions with research participants and modes of pedagogy to their engagements with each other and scholars from adjacent disciplines. This collection of essays explores how such processes might best be studied cross-culturally. Foregrounding the diverse interactions, ethical reasoning, and intellectual lives of people from across the continent of Asia, the volume develops an anthropology of intellectual exchange itself.

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About the Authors

Jacob Copeman is Research Professor at University of Santiago de Compostela. He co-edited the volume Global Sceptical Publics: From Non-religious Print Media to ‘Digital Atheism’ (UCL Press, 2022) with Mascha Schulz.

Lam Minh Chau is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Social and Economic Anthropology at College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

Joanna Cook is a reader in Anthropology at University College London. Her most recent publication is Making a Mindful Nation: Mental Health and Governance in the 21st Century (Princeton University Press, 2023).

Nicholas J. Long is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Magnus Marsden is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex where he is also the Director of the Sussex Asia Centre.

Edition details

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1805390708
• ISBN 13: 9781805390701
• Binding: Library Binding
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 326
• Editor: Copeman Jacob, Chau Lam Minh, Cook Joanna, Long Nicholas J.