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Can a planetary anthropology deal with either the "provincial cosmopolitanism" of other anthropologies and the "metropolitan provincialism" of hegemonic colleges? How may the ensuing "world anthropologies" problem the present landscape during which sure allegedly nationwide anthropological traditions have extra paradigmatic weight--and accordingly extra power--than others? severely studying the overseas dissemination of anthropology inside of and throughout nationwide energy fields, members tackle those questions and so on.
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Nevertheless, in the audience I recognized a number of Japan specialists who had come to see “Japanese” anthropologists. 8 We were perplexed by this question because our session was not concerned with “Japanese” anthropology as such. We had thought we were simply practicing anthropology, but our American colleagues saw us as “Japanese” anthropologists. ” at the annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Ethnology, in order to answer the question that had been posed at the AAA the previous year. Motomitsu Uchibori, the chairperson of the panel, summarized the conclusions reached (Uchibori 1995), and I reiterate the important points as follows.
In this plural landscape, “all would contribute languages, ideas, solutions and proposals without any of the partners losing his/her identity or local character, which would be preserved as symbolic capital at the service of the collectivity” (2005: 2). Although we are not close to reaching this goal, in Ramos’s opinion we can already envision it. The project of world anthropologies certainly has utopian reverberations, especially if we consider, along with Paul Ricoeur (1986), that utopias are struggles in the present over the meaning of the future.
At the University of Tokyo, the Department of Cultural Anthropology now belongs to a larger unit called “Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies,” since the restructuring of the graduate school in 1996. ” This situation is sometimes good for the discipline, because we can carry out interdisciplinary research and teaching on the contemporary world in accordance with the complexity of the research topics. But it may also mean that we lose our anthropological identity through diversification and research into an increasingly wide range of topics.