The Possibility of Cultural Anthropology between China and Japan

Abstract

The series of academic symposia conducted by JASCA in recent years reflects the anxiety of Japanese cultural anthropologists about their “presence” in the world academic system of anthropology, which is always conducted/led by anthropologists from Europe and the U.S. It also shows that JASCA is taking the initiative in raising its profile, through using the English language to construct or reconstruct an interactive network of anthropology among the three major countries in East Asia, that is Japan, China and South Korea. This move is initiated with the strong intention to promote Japanese anthropology and East Asian anthropology’s influence in the world academic system of anthropology.