Pasts and presents: History, politics, and the representation of self and other in pacific ethnography
Foerstel, Lenora and Angela Gilliam, eds. Confronting the Margaret Mead Legacy: Scholarship, Empire, and the South Pacific. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1992. xxxv + 298 pp. $34.95 cloth. Hays, Terence E., ed. Ethnographic Presents: Pioneering Anthropologists in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. xv + 301 pp. including combined bibliography and index. $40.00 cloth.
ANTHROPOLOGY AND IMPERIALISM
This paper was first prepared for an audience of anthropologists in the United States of America, where I have taught and researched for the past twelve years. Some of the questions that it raises apply, although perhaps less acutely, to social and cultural anthropologists from the other industrial nations of Western Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand. The international circumstances to which I refer no doubt also create problems for anthropologists born and resident in a number of the Latin American, Asian, and African countries where much anthropological research is carried out. I should be especially glad if this paper stimulates some among the latter anthropologists to comment on how these circumstances are viewed by them and how they affect their work.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
European colonial expansion since, 1871
This little atlas, consisting of ten well executed maps plus a descriptive text facing each map, is the best existing low-priced atlas of the Far Eastern war area and should be in every student's hands, indeed in every American home. The maps, although showing in a few cases something of the topography of the country, emphasize land, sea and air communications and distances in China, Southeastern Asia and the Pacific as they existed before Dec. 7, 1941. Siberia and Japan are dealt with only incidentally. The useful descriptive text was prepared by the staff of Asia under the direction of Miss Constance Wade as was the index. A brief introduction has been written by Admiral H. E. Yarnell. Map 1, "China in Eastern Asia," shows the trunk rail and road communication lines of China. Map 2, "China," merely indicates the provinces of China. Map 3 indicates the main "Communications between the United States and China" via the Pacific and via the Atlantic across and around Africa. Map 4, "Communications in China," gives a detailed picture of roads and railways in operation, building and projected. Maps 5 and 6 deal with the "Northern access to China" and the southern and "Western boundaries of China." The latter map shows the projected Assam-Sikang highway, which may become the chief route to China. Map 7 dealing with "Burma, Thailand & Indochina" fails to indicate rail connections directly east from Bangkok to Saigon and two rail lines running to the Lao frontier (see map in Far Eastern survey, 11, Jan. 12, 1942). Map 8 sets forth the territorial divisions of the "Western Pacific" area. Map 9 shows the chief existing and projected communication lines of the "Greater Pacific area" including the northern sea route, while Map 10 gives "Some air distances in the Far East." ^ T T ^ E.H.P.