TY  - JOUR
A1  - Korff, Rüdiger
A1  - Schröter, Susanne
T1  - Current trends in anthropological and sociological research on and in southeast Asia
T2  - Südostasien aktuell
N2  - In their study on "The modern anthropology of Southeast Asia", Victor King and William Wilder raise the question in how far the region can be taken as a field of anthropological enquiry. After their initial discussion of cultural and social trends as well as anthropological studies, they conclude that the common issue of the region is its diversity. They come to the rather pragmatic solution that "South-East Asia constitutes a convenient unit of study, ... but ... we should not think of it in terms of a bounded, unified and homogenous socio-cultural area" (King/Wilder 2003: 24). We doubt that there are homogenous socio-cultural areas anywhere else. These are usually constructed through the invention of traditions and ideological simulations. The interesting case with regards to Southeast Asia is, why no such homogeneity has been constructed, not even by anthropologists or sociologists. ...
KW  - Südostasien
KW  - Anthropologie
KW  - Sozialforschung
KW  - Forschungsgegenstand
KW  - Forschung
KW  - Interesse
Y1  - 2006
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/50134
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-501342
UR  - https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/33722
SN  - 0722-8821
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VL  - 25
IS  - 4
SP  - 63
EP  - 72
PB  - Institut für Asienkunde
CY  - Hamburg
ER  -