Colonial Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia

By Jan van Bremen

The following papers were given in this order:

Part I: Anthropology in the Colonial Era: historical and comparative perspectives
- Akitoshi Shimizu (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka) and Jan van Bremen (Leiden University): Anthropology in the Colonial Era: historical and comparative perspectives.
- Han Vermeulen (Leiden University): History of Anthropology in Colonial Contexts.
- Peter Pels (Leiden University): The Colonial Subjects of Anthropology.
- Ruud Janssens (Amsterdam University): Anthropologists at War: the Office of War Information, policy-makers, and postwar Japan (1942-1945).

Part II: Japanese Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia in the Colonial Period
- Patrick Beillevaire (CNRS, Paris): Assimilation from Within: the ethnology of Ryþkyþ / Okinawa.
- Timothy Y. Tsu (National University of Singapore): Japanese Government Anthropology in Taiwan (1885-1945).
- Fred Yen-liang Chiu (Hong Kong Baptist University): Nationalist Anthropology in Taiwan after 1945.
- Akitoshi Shimizu (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka): Colonial Anthropology in Micronesia and the Development of Modern Anthropology in Japan.
- Katsumi Nakao, (Wako University, Japan): Japanese Colonial Policy and Anthropology in Manchuria.
- Boudewijn Walraven (Leiden University): Ethnology in Korea in the Colonial Era (1910-1945).
- Jennifer Robertson (Michigan University): Performing Imperialism: theater and the cultural strategies of Japanese colonial policy.

Part III: Dutch Anthropology in Southeast Asia in the colonial period
- Jos Platenkamp (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster): A Mirror of Paradigms: nineteenth and early twentieth century ethnology reflected in Bijdragen.
- Michael Prager (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster): The Relations between the "Leiden Structuralist School" and Dutch Colonialism (1916-1949). - Jan de Wolf (Utrecht University): Colonial Ideologies and Ethnological Discourses: a comparison of the United Faculties at Leiden and Utrecht.

Part IV: Evaluation
- Eyal Ben-Ari (Hebrew University Jerusalem): Argumentative afterword.

The scholars, researchers, and students who attended doubled the number of participants. They contibuted significantly to the discussions and debates and they are owed a debt of gratitude along with the speakers and the sponsors. It was decided to publish the papers.