Construction of national identity and origins in East Asia
A Comparative Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3255195 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fumiko Ikawa-Smith, Fumiko Ikawa‐smith (McGill University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 281 |
| Pages | 626-629 |
| Publication date | 1999-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003598x00065200 |
| OpenAlex | W87429855 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 15 |
Many authors have remarked that archaeology in East Asia is part of the discipline of history (Chang 1981: 148; Ikawa-Smith 1975: 15; Nelson 1995: 218; Olsen 1987: 282-3; Von Falkenhausen 1993). Furthermore, it is more 'locally focussed' (Barnes 1993: 40), with most of the practising archaeologists investigating archaeological remains within their own national boundaries. To paraphrase the famous statement by North American archaeologists, 'American archaeology is anthropology or it is nothing' (Willey & Phillips 1957: 2), into 'East Asian archaeology is national history or it is nothing' would be an overstatement, but it is not too far from the reality. The major goal of archaeology in East Asia is to enhance understanding of a nation's past, by increasing its temporal depth. In other words, construction of national identity is the prime business of archaeology in East Asia
Archaeology · Archaeology of the Americas · Art · China · East Asia · Ethnology · Far East · Identity (music) · Nothing · Orient · Paraphrase · Perspective (graphical) · Post-medieval archaeology · Sociology · Anthropology · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Sociopolitical Change from Neolithic to Bronze Age China
The Nationalistic Trend in South Korean Archaeology
Practice of Archaeology in Contemporary Japan
The Chinese Neolithic
Finding the Past in the Landscape
National and political uses of archaeology in South-East Asia
Public Memory and the Search for Power in American Historical Archaeology
Method and Theory in American Archaeology
The politics of ethnicity in prehistoric Korea
Nationalism and postwar Japanese archaeology
Japanese Culture
Windows on the Japanese Past
Nationalism, Politics and the Practice of Archaeology
The Prehistory of Korea
The Lower Palaeolithic Cultures of Southern and Eastern Asia
On the historiographical orientation of Chinese archaeology
Chinese Archaeology since 1949
The practice of archaeology in China today
L'idéologie de l'homogénéité culturelle dans l'archéologie préhistorique japonaise
Alternative Archaeologies
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,28 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2016 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |