An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange

Jacob Copeman is Research Professor at University of Santiago de Compostela. He co-edited the volume Global Sceptical Publics: From Non-religious Print Media to ‘Digital Atheism’ (UCL Press, 2022) with Mascha Schulz.

List of Figures



Foreword

Sunil Amrith



Acknowledgements



Introduction: An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange

Nicholas J. Long, Jacob Copeman, Magnus Marsden, Lam Minh Chau and Joanna Cook



Part I. Bridging Worlds



Chapter 1. Mapping Time, Living Space: The Moral Cartography of Renovation in Late-Socialist Vietnam

Susan Bayly



Chapter 2. Worlds United and Apart: Bridging Divergence in Hanoi and Beyond

Susan Bayly



Part II: Asian Transformations and Complexities



Chapter 3. Soviet-style Apartment Blocks in Hanoi: Architecture and Intellectual Exchange

Nguyen Van Huy and Nguyen Vu Hoang



Chapter 4. Intellectual Exchanges in Muslim Asia: Intersections of History and Geography

Magnus Marsden



Chapter 5. Super Singhs and Kaurageous Kaurs: Sikh Names, Caste and Disidentity Politics

Jacob Copeman



Chapter 6. Retrieving the Muted Subject in the Early Socialist Ecumene: The Example of the Mongolian Scholar Mergen Gombojab

Caroline Humphrey



Chapter 7. Intellectual Exchange with Hands: Cosmology and Materiality in Manual Sharing Practices of an Asian Musical Instrument

Sukanya Sarbadhikary



Chapter 8. Cooking the ‘Imperialist West’: The Exchange of Non-Marxist Non-Evolutionist Ideas in Vietnamese Institutionalized Anthropology in the Pre-Renovation High-Socialist Period

Lam Minh Chau



Chapter 9. The Ideal of Intellectual Exchange: Study Abroad, Affect, and the Ambivalences of Citizenship in Post-Suharto Indonesia

Nicholas J. Long



Chapter 10. This is the End? The French Settler Community in Saigon and the Fall of Indochina in 1945

Christopher Goscha



Afterword

James Laidlaw



Index