Author: Association for Asian Studies. Committee on South AsiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southeast Asia
Languages : en
Pages :
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Resources for South Asian Area Studies in the United States
Author: Association for Asian Studies. Committee on South AsiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southeast Asia
Languages : en
Pages :
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Resources for South Asian Area Studies in the United States
Author: Richard D. LambertPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512803251
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book presents an analysis of the current state and the future needs of American studies of India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Afghanistan, and Nepal. Although most of the developmental goals set immediately after World War II by the scholars then working in South Asian area studies have been amply fulfilled, a new stocktaking and blueprint for the future was felt to be necessary. In addition to meeting this requirement, Resources for South Asian Area Studies treats the more general needs of the field and discusses the individual papers, which were read at a plenary conference held in New York early in 1961. One of the purposes of this volume, then, is to survey the current resources and needs in the field of South Asian area studies, and this is a primary interest of the convener of the conference, the Association for Asian Studies' Committee on South Asia, whose chairman, Richard D. Lambert, edited this book. The other purpose is more specialized, and reflects the specific interest of the United States Office of Education, the sponsor of the conference. Under the National Defense Education Act this office is explicitly charged with the development of skills among Americans in the vernacular languages of the region. A companion volume to this one, edited by W. Norman Brown and entitled Resources for South Asian Language Studies, concerns the development of linguistic material and personnel. The present volume is oriented more toward the integration of those materials into area studies proper; hence the discussion of this problem that runs through each of the papers. The book should be of interest to all those concerned with the emergence from parochialism and the development of an international, particularly non-Western aspect of American higher education.
Resources for South Asian Area Studies in the United States
Author: R. D. LambertResources in Education
Author: Autobiography of an Archive
Author: Nicholas B. DirksPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231538510
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
The decades between 1970 and the end of the twentieth century saw the disciplines of history and anthropology draw closer together, with historians paying more attention to social and cultural factors and the significance of everyday experience in the study of the past. The people, rather than elite actors, became the focus of their inquiry, and anthropological insights into agriculture, kinship, ritual, and folk customs enabled historians to develop richer and more representative narratives. The intersection of these two disciplines also helped scholars reframe the legacies of empire and the roots of colonial knowledge. In this collection of essays and lectures, history's turn from high politics and formal intellectual history toward ordinary lives and cultural rhythms is vividly reflected in a scholar's intellectual journey to India. Nicholas B. Dirks recounts his early study of kingship in India, the rise of the caste system, the emergence of English imperial interest in controlling markets and India's political regimes, and the development of a crisis in sovereignty that led to an extraordinary nationalist struggle. He shares his personal encounters with archives that provided the sources and boundaries for research on these subjects, ultimately revealing the limits of colonial knowledge and single disciplinary perspectives. Drawing parallels to the way American universities balance the liberal arts and specialized research today, Dirks, who has occupied senior administrative positions and now leads the University of California at Berkeley, encourages scholars to continue to apply multiple approaches to their research and build a more global and ethical archive.
List No. 7: Foreign Language Area Studies and Other Aspects of Internatinal Education
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Research in Education
Author: Foreign Language, Area, and Other International Studies
Author: John P. BrosseauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Area studies
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
International Education: Past, Present, Problems and Prospects
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Task Force on International EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : International relations
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
The Philippines in a Changing Southeast Asia
Author: Steven R. DorrPublisher:
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Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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