Meshes of the Far East
Run by Tobia Farnetti (t.farnetti@ucl.ac.uk)
FIRST MEETING: Wednesday 16th January: ROOM 128, 14 Taviton
The Meshes of the Far East RRG aims to bring together staff and students with a regional interest in north-east Asia, while at the same time aiming to provide/create a new dimension for comparison. China, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, and the Russian Far East have been extensively studied within the discipline, but never compared with one other. The anthropology of China and Japan, for example, strictly stay within the geographical boundaries of their nation-states, while the Russian Far East is thought to theoretically lie within the comparative domain of the Circumpolar North. Is there something to be gained in comparing ethnographies from these countries with one another? Are there any hidden threads that can weave these ethnographies together apart from the fact that they all lie at the eastern fringes of the Eurasian continent?
It is with a manifest comparative disposition that Meshes of the Far East RRG tries to set the foundations for an anthropology of North-East Asia.
For more information contact Tobia Farnetti at t.farnetti@ucl.ac.uk
