Asian Anthropology
@asiananthropology.bsky.social
A peer-reviewed journal committed to ethnography-driven research exploring Asia’s global entanglements, migrations, and transnational flows. Published by Taylor & Francis.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/raan20
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/raan20
🎉 New article accepted!
#AA_accepted #QueerStudies #Indonesia
Title: “Examining Indonesian queer groups through Axel Honneth’s perspective on recognition”.
Authors: Agus Danugroho, Rustinsyah Rustinsyah & Mohammad Adib.
Stay tuned! The full article will be out soon! 🌏✨
#AA_accepted #QueerStudies #Indonesia
Title: “Examining Indonesian queer groups through Axel Honneth’s perspective on recognition”.
Authors: Agus Danugroho, Rustinsyah Rustinsyah & Mohammad Adib.
Stay tuned! The full article will be out soon! 🌏✨
October 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
🎉 New article accepted!
#AA_accepted #QueerStudies #Indonesia
Title: “Examining Indonesian queer groups through Axel Honneth’s perspective on recognition”.
Authors: Agus Danugroho, Rustinsyah Rustinsyah & Mohammad Adib.
Stay tuned! The full article will be out soon! 🌏✨
#AA_accepted #QueerStudies #Indonesia
Title: “Examining Indonesian queer groups through Axel Honneth’s perspective on recognition”.
Authors: Agus Danugroho, Rustinsyah Rustinsyah & Mohammad Adib.
Stay tuned! The full article will be out soon! 🌏✨
🎙️Our podcast is live! @klemensenica.bsky.social & @marcodifrancesco.bsky.social discuss Asian Anthropology’s special issue on research on Japan in (post-)COVID Times. Fieldwork, adaptation, and unexpected insights—thoughtful reflections and funny stories included!
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Research on Japan in (Post-)COVID Times: A Conversation with Klemen Senica and Marco Di Francesco
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September 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🎙️Our podcast is live! @klemensenica.bsky.social & @marcodifrancesco.bsky.social discuss Asian Anthropology’s special issue on research on Japan in (post-)COVID Times. Fieldwork, adaptation, and unexpected insights—thoughtful reflections and funny stories included!
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At the T&F journal 'Asian Anthropology', we are looking for new co-editors.
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July 27, 2025 at 9:26 AM
At the T&F journal 'Asian Anthropology', we are looking for new co-editors.
If you are interested in this role, please consider applying! You can find all information here: lnkd.in/edwapNw8.
@asiananthropology.bsky.social
If you are interested in this role, please consider applying! You can find all information here: lnkd.in/edwapNw8.
@asiananthropology.bsky.social
📢 Introducing the Research Report category!
Less theory, more ethnographic insight—perfect for current PhD students 👩🎓👨🎓
Check out an example from our latest issue: Jia Li's piece on artistic place-making in a Guangzhou urban village
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#AA_ResearchReport #PlaceMaking #China
Less theory, more ethnographic insight—perfect for current PhD students 👩🎓👨🎓
Check out an example from our latest issue: Jia Li's piece on artistic place-making in a Guangzhou urban village
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#AA_ResearchReport #PlaceMaking #China
Makeshift place-making and artistic practices in a Guangzhou urban village
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in an urban village (chengzhongcun 城中村) in Guangzhou, this study examines how young artists experiment with creating spatial conditions for everyday need...
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June 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM
📢 Introducing the Research Report category!
Less theory, more ethnographic insight—perfect for current PhD students 👩🎓👨🎓
Check out an example from our latest issue: Jia Li's piece on artistic place-making in a Guangzhou urban village
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#AA_ResearchReport #PlaceMaking #China
Less theory, more ethnographic insight—perfect for current PhD students 👩🎓👨🎓
Check out an example from our latest issue: Jia Li's piece on artistic place-making in a Guangzhou urban village
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#AA_ResearchReport #PlaceMaking #China
Did you know that Asian Anthropology publishes book reviews?
In our latest issue, Ke Ma (@aissr.bsky.social) reviews 'Modified Bodies, Material Selves' by Julie E. Starr — on beauty, identity & the body in post-reform Shanghai.
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#BookReview #Beauty #China #Anthropology
In our latest issue, Ke Ma (@aissr.bsky.social) reviews 'Modified Bodies, Material Selves' by Julie E. Starr — on beauty, identity & the body in post-reform Shanghai.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#BookReview #Beauty #China #Anthropology
Modified bodies, material selves: beauty ideals in post-reform Shanghai
Published in Asian Anthropology (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2025)
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June 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Did you know that Asian Anthropology publishes book reviews?
In our latest issue, Ke Ma (@aissr.bsky.social) reviews 'Modified Bodies, Material Selves' by Julie E. Starr — on beauty, identity & the body in post-reform Shanghai.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#BookReview #Beauty #China #Anthropology
In our latest issue, Ke Ma (@aissr.bsky.social) reviews 'Modified Bodies, Material Selves' by Julie E. Starr — on beauty, identity & the body in post-reform Shanghai.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#BookReview #Beauty #China #Anthropology
Vol. 24(2) highlight!
"Working together for a better life: individuals, family, and society in the rural Mekong Delta, Vietnam" by Setsuko Shibuya
As rapid development reshapes Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, what holds people together?
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#Vietnam #Migration #Urbanization
"Working together for a better life: individuals, family, and society in the rural Mekong Delta, Vietnam" by Setsuko Shibuya
As rapid development reshapes Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, what holds people together?
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#Vietnam #Migration #Urbanization
Working together for a better life: individuals, family, and society in the rural Mekong Delta, Vietnam
People in the rural Mekong Delta in Vietnam have been experiencing social transformations associated with rapid economic development, which has led to both urbanization and out-migration. This arti...
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May 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Vol. 24(2) highlight!
"Working together for a better life: individuals, family, and society in the rural Mekong Delta, Vietnam" by Setsuko Shibuya
As rapid development reshapes Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, what holds people together?
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#Vietnam #Migration #Urbanization
"Working together for a better life: individuals, family, and society in the rural Mekong Delta, Vietnam" by Setsuko Shibuya
As rapid development reshapes Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, what holds people together?
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#Vietnam #Migration #Urbanization
Vol. 24(2) is out now!
Featuring Gabriel Pereira & Ting-Fai Yu’s powerful piece on housing discrimination against Indian Malaysians in Klang Valley—where landlords’ racial biases and everyday racism shape who gets to rent.
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#Malaysia #racism #housingdiscrimination
Featuring Gabriel Pereira & Ting-Fai Yu’s powerful piece on housing discrimination against Indian Malaysians in Klang Valley—where landlords’ racial biases and everyday racism shape who gets to rent.
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#Malaysia #racism #housingdiscrimination
Housing racism against Indians in Malaysia’s Klang Valley
House hunting in the Malaysian housing market is challenging for Indian Malaysian tenants, who are subject to various forms of racism. Harmful stereotypes painting Indians as dirty and dangerous ha...
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May 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Vol. 24(2) is out now!
Featuring Gabriel Pereira & Ting-Fai Yu’s powerful piece on housing discrimination against Indian Malaysians in Klang Valley—where landlords’ racial biases and everyday racism shape who gets to rent.
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#Malaysia #racism #housingdiscrimination
Featuring Gabriel Pereira & Ting-Fai Yu’s powerful piece on housing discrimination against Indian Malaysians in Klang Valley—where landlords’ racial biases and everyday racism shape who gets to rent.
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#Malaysia #racism #housingdiscrimination
🎭 PhD Highlight!
Maheshwar Kumar examines Purulia Chhau (West Bengal) as cultural text from an Indigenous perspective—analyzing and linking ritual, training, audience, and gender through Schechner’s performance model.
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#AADissertationHighlight #PerformanceStudies
Maheshwar Kumar examines Purulia Chhau (West Bengal) as cultural text from an Indigenous perspective—analyzing and linking ritual, training, audience, and gender through Schechner’s performance model.
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#AADissertationHighlight #PerformanceStudies
Performance as cultural text: defamiliarizing the performing art tradition of Purulia Chhau
Referring to the social and cultural anthropological perspectives and employing a qualitative approach as the primary methodological tool, this PhD dissertation explores the performing art traditio...
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May 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
🎭 PhD Highlight!
Maheshwar Kumar examines Purulia Chhau (West Bengal) as cultural text from an Indigenous perspective—analyzing and linking ritual, training, audience, and gender through Schechner’s performance model.
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#AADissertationHighlight #PerformanceStudies
Maheshwar Kumar examines Purulia Chhau (West Bengal) as cultural text from an Indigenous perspective—analyzing and linking ritual, training, audience, and gender through Schechner’s performance model.
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#AADissertationHighlight #PerformanceStudies
🚆 Why weren’t Tokyo’s packed commuter trains seen as COVID-19 risks?
In our latest issue, Christoph Schimkowsky explores why Japan's pandemic discourse framed urban rail as safe — contrasting global narratives of contagion.
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#Anthropology #COVID19 #Japan
In our latest issue, Christoph Schimkowsky explores why Japan's pandemic discourse framed urban rail as safe — contrasting global narratives of contagion.
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#Anthropology #COVID19 #Japan
Selective neglect of viral risk: Tokyo’s commuter trains during the COVID-19 pandemic
This article asks why Tokyo’s crowded trains were largely absent from official discourses of viral risk in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic. While public transport environments were often framed ...
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May 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
🚆 Why weren’t Tokyo’s packed commuter trains seen as COVID-19 risks?
In our latest issue, Christoph Schimkowsky explores why Japan's pandemic discourse framed urban rail as safe — contrasting global narratives of contagion.
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#Anthropology #COVID19 #Japan
In our latest issue, Christoph Schimkowsky explores why Japan's pandemic discourse framed urban rail as safe — contrasting global narratives of contagion.
Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#Anthropology #COVID19 #Japan
🎧Coming soon: Asian Anthropology’s new podcast!
In Ep. 1, @klemensenica.bsky.social & Marco Di Francesco join us to explore how fieldwork in Japan changed in (post-)COVID times—methodologically, emotionally, and ethically.
Stay tuned, we can’t wait to share it with you!
#Anthropology #COVID #Japan
In Ep. 1, @klemensenica.bsky.social & Marco Di Francesco join us to explore how fieldwork in Japan changed in (post-)COVID times—methodologically, emotionally, and ethically.
Stay tuned, we can’t wait to share it with you!
#Anthropology #COVID #Japan
May 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
🎧Coming soon: Asian Anthropology’s new podcast!
In Ep. 1, @klemensenica.bsky.social & Marco Di Francesco join us to explore how fieldwork in Japan changed in (post-)COVID times—methodologically, emotionally, and ethically.
Stay tuned, we can’t wait to share it with you!
#Anthropology #COVID #Japan
In Ep. 1, @klemensenica.bsky.social & Marco Di Francesco join us to explore how fieldwork in Japan changed in (post-)COVID times—methodologically, emotionally, and ethically.
Stay tuned, we can’t wait to share it with you!
#Anthropology #COVID #Japan
Another gem from our latest issue! ✨
How do young people in China build meaningful connections with strangers? Haoyan Zhuang (Renmin University of China) explores 'lianjie' — a form of relationality emerging in urban co-living spaces.
doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#UrbanYouth #CoLiving #ChinaStudies
How do young people in China build meaningful connections with strangers? Haoyan Zhuang (Renmin University of China) explores 'lianjie' — a form of relationality emerging in urban co-living spaces.
doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#UrbanYouth #CoLiving #ChinaStudies
From guanxi to lianjie: stranger intimacy and co-living in contemporary China
Urban youth in China increasingly prioritize lianjie (连接)—a social matrix and lifestyle based on connections with strangers, distinguishing it from guanxi, which is rooted in acquaintance relations...
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May 8, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Another gem from our latest issue! ✨
How do young people in China build meaningful connections with strangers? Haoyan Zhuang (Renmin University of China) explores 'lianjie' — a form of relationality emerging in urban co-living spaces.
doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#UrbanYouth #CoLiving #ChinaStudies
How do young people in China build meaningful connections with strangers? Haoyan Zhuang (Renmin University of China) explores 'lianjie' — a form of relationality emerging in urban co-living spaces.
doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#UrbanYouth #CoLiving #ChinaStudies
🔎 New in our latest issue!
How do Buddhist temples become sites of urban redevelopment?
In “Paradoxical postsecularity in the making”, Yang Wang, Junxi Qian, and Yusheng Lei explore religion, commerce, and urban transformation in Chengdu, China.
👉 doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#UrbanStudies #Religion
How do Buddhist temples become sites of urban redevelopment?
In “Paradoxical postsecularity in the making”, Yang Wang, Junxi Qian, and Yusheng Lei explore religion, commerce, and urban transformation in Chengdu, China.
👉 doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#UrbanStudies #Religion
Paradoxical postsecularity in the making: a methodological experiment in the study of China’s temple-centered urban redevelopment
The incorporation of Buddhist temples into urban redevelopment within China’s market transition became notable after the 2000s. Domestic and international real estate developers collaborated with l...
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May 2, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🔎 New in our latest issue!
How do Buddhist temples become sites of urban redevelopment?
In “Paradoxical postsecularity in the making”, Yang Wang, Junxi Qian, and Yusheng Lei explore religion, commerce, and urban transformation in Chengdu, China.
👉 doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#UrbanStudies #Religion
How do Buddhist temples become sites of urban redevelopment?
In “Paradoxical postsecularity in the making”, Yang Wang, Junxi Qian, and Yusheng Lei explore religion, commerce, and urban transformation in Chengdu, China.
👉 doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#UrbanStudies #Religion
🎉 New article accepted!
#AA_accepted #MedicalAnthropology #ObstetricViolence
Title: Malay women’s narratives of gender-, class- and race-based obstetric iatrogenesis in Singapore
Author: Syahirah Rasheed (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies @kitlv.bsky.social)
#AA_accepted #MedicalAnthropology #ObstetricViolence
Title: Malay women’s narratives of gender-, class- and race-based obstetric iatrogenesis in Singapore
Author: Syahirah Rasheed (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies @kitlv.bsky.social)
April 29, 2025 at 7:39 AM
🎉 New article accepted!
#AA_accepted #MedicalAnthropology #ObstetricViolence
Title: Malay women’s narratives of gender-, class- and race-based obstetric iatrogenesis in Singapore
Author: Syahirah Rasheed (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies @kitlv.bsky.social)
#AA_accepted #MedicalAnthropology #ObstetricViolence
Title: Malay women’s narratives of gender-, class- and race-based obstetric iatrogenesis in Singapore
Author: Syahirah Rasheed (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies @kitlv.bsky.social)
We're launching an interview series with leading voices in Asian Anthropology!
First up: Prof. James Farrer @sophiauniversitye.bsky.social on youth sexual culture in China, expat life in Shanghai, & global Japanese cuisine—Vol.24(1)
doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#Anthropology #AsianStudies #Ethnography
First up: Prof. James Farrer @sophiauniversitye.bsky.social on youth sexual culture in China, expat life in Shanghai, & global Japanese cuisine—Vol.24(1)
doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#Anthropology #AsianStudies #Ethnography
Grounding a global career in local knowledge: an interview with James Farrer, professor in sociology at Sophia University, Japan
Published in Asian Anthropology (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
April 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
We're launching an interview series with leading voices in Asian Anthropology!
First up: Prof. James Farrer @sophiauniversitye.bsky.social on youth sexual culture in China, expat life in Shanghai, & global Japanese cuisine—Vol.24(1)
doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#Anthropology #AsianStudies #Ethnography
First up: Prof. James Farrer @sophiauniversitye.bsky.social on youth sexual culture in China, expat life in Shanghai, & global Japanese cuisine—Vol.24(1)
doi.org/10.1080/1683...
#Anthropology #AsianStudies #Ethnography
🎉 Just in: new research accepted!
#AA_accepted #GenderStudies #WomensEmpowerment
Title: Women’s Limited Agency as Market Actors in a Patriarchal Marketplace in the Context of Rajshahi City
Authors: Shekh Sadia Akter, Most Umma Sumaya & Chowdhury Anika Farah (University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh)
#AA_accepted #GenderStudies #WomensEmpowerment
Title: Women’s Limited Agency as Market Actors in a Patriarchal Marketplace in the Context of Rajshahi City
Authors: Shekh Sadia Akter, Most Umma Sumaya & Chowdhury Anika Farah (University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh)
April 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
🎉 Just in: new research accepted!
#AA_accepted #GenderStudies #WomensEmpowerment
Title: Women’s Limited Agency as Market Actors in a Patriarchal Marketplace in the Context of Rajshahi City
Authors: Shekh Sadia Akter, Most Umma Sumaya & Chowdhury Anika Farah (University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh)
#AA_accepted #GenderStudies #WomensEmpowerment
Title: Women’s Limited Agency as Market Actors in a Patriarchal Marketplace in the Context of Rajshahi City
Authors: Shekh Sadia Akter, Most Umma Sumaya & Chowdhury Anika Farah (University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh)
🏆 The 2024 Best Paper Prize goes to Richard Fraser (Arctic University of Norway) for “That-which-must-not-be-named”: hunting, secrecy, and the ontology of meat in northeast China (Asian Anthropology Vol. 23/3). Check out this open-access paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
April 18, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🏆 The 2024 Best Paper Prize goes to Richard Fraser (Arctic University of Norway) for “That-which-must-not-be-named”: hunting, secrecy, and the ontology of meat in northeast China (Asian Anthropology Vol. 23/3). Check out this open-access paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....