Humanities Research Vol XIV. No. 1. 2007
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Humanities Research Vol XIV. No. 1. 2007
Historicising Cross-Cultural Research
Table of Contents
Contributors
Historicizing “Cross-Cultural”
The Lure of Texts and the Discipline of Praxis
Prologue: Narrative and texts
Culture and civilization
Voyagers and texts
First history: Van Diemen’s Land, December 1798
Second history: Moreton Bay, July 1799
Third history: Southeastern Van Diemen’s Land, January–February 1802
Conclusion
More Than One Adam?
Culture and civilization
Joseph Edkins
China’s place in philology
Conclusion
The Rise and Fall of the Comparative Method
Intellectual resistance to comparisons
The spirit of the age
The social structure of comparative research
The comparative anthropological project
The decline of the comparative method
Possibilities of the future
Contending Centres of Calculation in Colonial Taiwan
Introduction
Background and definitions
Partitioning the human species in Upland Taiwan
A broken narrative: Inō Kanori’s “10-Year History”
Biopower and necropower in colonial Taiwan
The Gestation of Cross-Cultural Music Research
Introduction
Explorers and philosophers
Comparative musicology
The anthropology of music
Waterman and Moyle: Contrasting scholars compared
Conclusions