Introduction

Special collection of research reports: The politics of memory and the state in East and Southeast Asia

Authors

• Margaret Bodemer University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30676/jfas.127464

Abstract

It is a pleasure to introduce this themed collection of research reports, which features five papers and an epilogue. These papers were developed from presentations delivered at the Society for East Asian Anthropology Conference, held in early July, 2009, on the Academia Sinica campus in Taipei, capital of the Republic of China (Taiwan). In organizing this panel for the SEAA conference, I wanted to find papers based on ethnographic fieldwork that addressed the political significance of memory and history and considered the roles of both the individual and the state in remembering the past, from sites across Asia.