Leo T. S. Ching
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520225510
- eISBN:
- 9780520925755
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520225510.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
“Imperialization” or kôminka is not the only “conviction” in becoming Japanese through “faith” in the Emperor, but the externalization of colonial ideology was remarkably demonstrated by the opening ...
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“Imperialization” or kôminka is not the only “conviction” in becoming Japanese through “faith” in the Emperor, but the externalization of colonial ideology was remarkably demonstrated by the opening epigraphs. The author argues with the interrogation into the ideology kôminka necessarily exposing the colonial myth of dôka or “assimilation” that allegedly preceded and made possible the arrival of kôminka. In the study of Japanese colonialism, kôminka was an extension of dôka on a linear and consistent trajectory of Japanese colonial policy. The author also argues that dôka, as a colonial ideology, represented a generalized field of the colonial project which defined a coherent philosophy or systematic policy.Less
“Imperialization” or kôminka is not the only “conviction” in becoming Japanese through “faith” in the Emperor, but the externalization of colonial ideology was remarkably demonstrated by the opening epigraphs. The author argues with the interrogation into the ideology kôminka necessarily exposing the colonial myth of dôka or “assimilation” that allegedly preceded and made possible the arrival of kôminka. In the study of Japanese colonialism, kôminka was an extension of dôka on a linear and consistent trajectory of Japanese colonial policy. The author also argues that dôka, as a colonial ideology, represented a generalized field of the colonial project which defined a coherent philosophy or systematic policy.
Tiffany A. Sippial
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781469608938
- eISBN:
- 9781469612706
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469608938.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This study of Cuban prostitution is firmly grounded in a desire to understand the untidy dynamics of nation building in a colonial and postcolonial setting. It notes that unlike in many other Latin ...
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This study of Cuban prostitution is firmly grounded in a desire to understand the untidy dynamics of nation building in a colonial and postcolonial setting. It notes that unlike in many other Latin American countries, prostitution regulation in Cuba during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was essentially a colonial project first implemented by Spain and then bolstered by military authorities during the U.S. intervention. It argues that prostitution policy was produced and reproduced, reinforced and revised, debated and defended according to complex interactions between international, national, and local actors and their agendas.Less
This study of Cuban prostitution is firmly grounded in a desire to understand the untidy dynamics of nation building in a colonial and postcolonial setting. It notes that unlike in many other Latin American countries, prostitution regulation in Cuba during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was essentially a colonial project first implemented by Spain and then bolstered by military authorities during the U.S. intervention. It argues that prostitution policy was produced and reproduced, reinforced and revised, debated and defended according to complex interactions between international, national, and local actors and their agendas.
Rainer F. Buschmann
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824831844
- eISBN:
- 9780824869960
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824831844.003.0002
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
Despite his opposition to colonial expansion and annexation, Berlin Ethnological Museum founder Adolf Bastian realized the possibilities for research emerging from German imperial ventures. Bastian ...
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Despite his opposition to colonial expansion and annexation, Berlin Ethnological Museum founder Adolf Bastian realized the possibilities for research emerging from German imperial ventures. Bastian and his assistants at the museum saw the import of Oceania and New Guinea for anthropological endeavors. Supposedly isolated for centuries, Oceanic regions promised unspoiled cultures that were fit to salvage and display in museum hallways. This “salvage” project, however, also required Bastian and Berlin's future director of the African and Oceanic division, Felix von Luschan, to engage the very agents who threatened the cultural continuity of Oceanic cultures. In short, the ethnographic frontier needed to interact with the colonial periphery. Such interaction could hardly avoid an intersection with German colonial projects. This engagement brought about a split between theory and practice of ethnographic collecting that would ultimately inform the development of the anthropological discipline in Germany. This chapter chronicles how Bastian and Luschan attempted to control German colonial agents' collecting practices. This practice triggered resentment among other museum officials not affiliated with the Berlin institution.Less
Despite his opposition to colonial expansion and annexation, Berlin Ethnological Museum founder Adolf Bastian realized the possibilities for research emerging from German imperial ventures. Bastian and his assistants at the museum saw the import of Oceania and New Guinea for anthropological endeavors. Supposedly isolated for centuries, Oceanic regions promised unspoiled cultures that were fit to salvage and display in museum hallways. This “salvage” project, however, also required Bastian and Berlin's future director of the African and Oceanic division, Felix von Luschan, to engage the very agents who threatened the cultural continuity of Oceanic cultures. In short, the ethnographic frontier needed to interact with the colonial periphery. Such interaction could hardly avoid an intersection with German colonial projects. This engagement brought about a split between theory and practice of ethnographic collecting that would ultimately inform the development of the anthropological discipline in Germany. This chapter chronicles how Bastian and Luschan attempted to control German colonial agents' collecting practices. This practice triggered resentment among other museum officials not affiliated with the Berlin institution.
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226075334
- eISBN:
- 9780226075303
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226075303.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
This introductory chapter begins with a brief description of President William McKinley's dilemma about what to do with the newly acquired Philippines, and then sets out the book's purpose, which is ...
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This introductory chapter begins with a brief description of President William McKinley's dilemma about what to do with the newly acquired Philippines, and then sets out the book's purpose, which is to explore how deploying the visual to signify empire helped further American imperialism in Asia. Through a close reading of a number of visual scapes—including the body, the decorative arts, the mass media, maps, the public spectacle of a parade, and architecture—the book argues that different visual mediums furthered empire while concomitantly fostering a space where debates about empire could take place. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.Less
This introductory chapter begins with a brief description of President William McKinley's dilemma about what to do with the newly acquired Philippines, and then sets out the book's purpose, which is to explore how deploying the visual to signify empire helped further American imperialism in Asia. Through a close reading of a number of visual scapes—including the body, the decorative arts, the mass media, maps, the public spectacle of a parade, and architecture—the book argues that different visual mediums furthered empire while concomitantly fostering a space where debates about empire could take place. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.
Sujit Sivasundaram
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226038223
- eISBN:
- 9780226038360
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226038360.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that ...
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How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain's contemporaneous subjugation of the island of Sri Lanka. This book reconsiders the arrival of British rule in South Asia as a dynamic and unfinished process of territorialization and state building, revealing that the British colonial project was framed by the island's traditions and maritime placement, and built in part on the model they provided. Using palm-leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka to read the official colonial archive, it tells the story of two sets of islanders in combat and collaboration. The book explores how the British organized the process of “islanding”: they aimed to create a separable unit of colonial governance and trade in keeping with conceptions of ethnology, culture, and geography. But rather than serving as a radical rupture, it reveals, islanding recycled traditions the British learned from Kandy, a kingdom in the Sri Lankan highlands whose customs—from strategies of war to views of nature—fascinated the British. Picking up a range of unusual themes, from migration, orientalism, and ethnography to botany, medicine, and education, the book provides a retelling of the advent of British rule.Less
How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain's contemporaneous subjugation of the island of Sri Lanka. This book reconsiders the arrival of British rule in South Asia as a dynamic and unfinished process of territorialization and state building, revealing that the British colonial project was framed by the island's traditions and maritime placement, and built in part on the model they provided. Using palm-leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka to read the official colonial archive, it tells the story of two sets of islanders in combat and collaboration. The book explores how the British organized the process of “islanding”: they aimed to create a separable unit of colonial governance and trade in keeping with conceptions of ethnology, culture, and geography. But rather than serving as a radical rupture, it reveals, islanding recycled traditions the British learned from Kandy, a kingdom in the Sri Lankan highlands whose customs—from strategies of war to views of nature—fascinated the British. Picking up a range of unusual themes, from migration, orientalism, and ethnography to botany, medicine, and education, the book provides a retelling of the advent of British rule.
Megan C. Thomas
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816671908
- eISBN:
- 9781452947013
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816671908.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
The writings of a small group of scholars known as the ilustrados are often credited for providing intellectual grounding for the Philippine Revolution of 1896. This book shows that the ilustrados’ ...
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The writings of a small group of scholars known as the ilustrados are often credited for providing intellectual grounding for the Philippine Revolution of 1896. This book shows that the ilustrados’ anticolonial project of defining and constructing the “Filipino”-involved Orientalist and racialist discourses that are usually ascribed to colonial projects, not anticolonial ones. According to the text, the work of the ilustrados uncovers the surprisingly blurry boundary between nationalist and colonialist thought. By any measure, there was an extraordinary flowering of scholarly writing about the peoples and history of the Philippines in the decade or so preceding the revolution. In reexamining the works of the scholars José Rizal, Pardo de Tavera, Isabelo de los Reyes, Pedro Paterno, Pedro Serrano Laktaw, and Mariano Ponce, the text situates their writings in a broader account of intellectual ideas and politics migrating and transmuting across borders. She reveals how the ilustrados both drew from and refashioned the tools and concepts of Orientalist scholarship from Europe.Less
The writings of a small group of scholars known as the ilustrados are often credited for providing intellectual grounding for the Philippine Revolution of 1896. This book shows that the ilustrados’ anticolonial project of defining and constructing the “Filipino”-involved Orientalist and racialist discourses that are usually ascribed to colonial projects, not anticolonial ones. According to the text, the work of the ilustrados uncovers the surprisingly blurry boundary between nationalist and colonialist thought. By any measure, there was an extraordinary flowering of scholarly writing about the peoples and history of the Philippines in the decade or so preceding the revolution. In reexamining the works of the scholars José Rizal, Pardo de Tavera, Isabelo de los Reyes, Pedro Paterno, Pedro Serrano Laktaw, and Mariano Ponce, the text situates their writings in a broader account of intellectual ideas and politics migrating and transmuting across borders. She reveals how the ilustrados both drew from and refashioned the tools and concepts of Orientalist scholarship from Europe.
