Social scientists whose central work is the study of Asian societies, including the founder of Chinese sociology and anthropology, scholars of caste and village India and of Japanese social structure, and Indian anthropologists writing on violence and everyday life. A theorist belongs here when the cited article names the person's work on Chinese, Indian or Japanese society or calls the person Indian. It excludes Western anthropologists who studied Asia as one of many field sites.
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Wikipedia: Fei Xiaotong
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Starting in the late 1930s, he and his colleagues established Chinese sociology and his works were instrumental in laying a foundation for the development of sociological and anthropological studies in China.
Wikipedia: M. N. Srinivas
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He is mostly known for his work on caste and caste systems, social stratification, Sanskritisation and Westernisation in southern India and the concept of "dominant caste".
Wikipedia: Chie Nakane
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She is internationally known for her bestselling book, Japanese Society, which has been translated into 13 languages.
Veena Das (Wikipedia)
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Indian anthropologist
The Postcolonial Web: Who is Partha Chatterjee?
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Chatterjee is Professor of Political Science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India, and simultaneously Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, U.S.A.
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