21 Nov 2008

Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
Self-description:
"Academic Mission - [T]he Institute looks in three principal directions for the medium/long term: 1. Expanding geographic and cultural areas for comparative studies: Areas such as East Asia (including China), Southeast Asia, and Oceania are current study targets. Latin America, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East will be studied in the future. 2. Deepening research levels: Past research emphasized narratives in social organization. We are now emphasizing other aspects of cultural research, particularly cultural classifications and cultural logics, and the interfaces between culture and cognition (such as unconscious levels of cognition and sentiment). 3. Integrating historical and social contexts of socio-cultural development: Topics of research include the development of capitalism (including globalization issues), modern nationalism, and Christianization.
Research Fellows & Research Groups - There are currently 29 full-time research fellows at the Institute. [...] Cooperative research projects currently underway include: The Orchid Island Research Team, Medicine and Body Experience, State Formation, Hierarchy and Power, Historical Anthropology, Narration: From Reading to Performance, Rethinking Boundaries: Historical and Cultural Processes at the Chinese Margins, Team for Indigenous Psychological Healing Research. [...]."
Site contents:
* About the Institute; * Research Staff; * Academic Activities; * Visiting Researchers; * Research Facilities (Library, Ethnology Museum, Computing Facilities); * Publications of the Insititute of Ethnology; * News (# Faculty Positions Announcement. # Monday Lecture Series (Nov 24, 2008) : Beyond Financial Self-Sufficiency: Poor Single Mothers' Perspectives of Independence. # Lunch Talk Series (Nov 26, 2008) : Reconstructing the Original Aspects and Migration Process Of the Bunun People in Batonggua Community. Shamans and Ritual Performances in Contemporary Contexts (2008 / 12 / 5-6). # The Unthinkable-Thinking Beyond the Limits of Culture (2008 / 12 / 13-14) # New Issue of Taiwan Journal of Anthropology (Vol. 6, No. 1, Special Issue) is published. # New Issue of Field Materials Institute of Ethnology Academia Sinica (No. 20) is published. # New Book of Survey Reports on the Customs of the Formosan Aborigines (No. 6) is published. # New Book of Memorial Essay Collection of Liu, Ping-hsiung is published).
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