Dialogues, encounters and interactions through which particular ways of knowing, understanding and thinking about the world are forged lie at the centre of anthropology. Such ‘intellectual exchange’ is also central to anthropologists’ own professional practice: from their interactions with research participants and modes of pedagogy to their engagements with each other and scholars from adjacent disciplines. This collection of essays explores how such processes might best be studied cross-culturally. Foregrounding the diverse interactions, ethical reasoning, and intellectual lives of people from across the continent of Asia, the volume develops an anthropology of intellectual exchange itself.

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