嗯....上面有趣的幾篇。聯想到不少事情，其中一個，
是去年底收集到的一個 "情報" 。作者是孟加拉來的，
一起報告對印度社會學和人類學發展頗重要的印度學者
M. N. Srinivas時，順便跟他拿到的孟加拉人類學發展
大概。有些東西還是滿詭異的....
呃，比如說 "Paradise of anthropological research"....
(因為一不小心就會想到 "fool's paradise"
就會想問 "Hell of anthropological research"在哪裡?
或有沒有 "fool's hell" 之類的 >_< ...給他有點揮之不去....
....還好有括號這種
類普遍符號存在 XD)
總之孟加拉的人類學發展，也是頗有趣的。貼在這邊給大家訊息上的一點參考了。
By Nazmul Hasan
Development of Anthropology in Bangladesh:
Like India ,large portion of Bangladesh is actually rural area
and the challenge was to incorporate those part of the country
to bring them and to develop appropriate strategies for socio-economic
development and for this understanding of those societies was essential.
1958- Bangladesh academy for rural development for developing strategies
(Comilla Model) based on cooperatives. Establishment of Sociology
at Dhaka University ---but the survey type work was inappropriate
for real understanding.
Prof. Nazmul karim who received Ph.D from Columbia University
founded sociology dept. at D.U and he thought sociology must be
social anthropology in Bangladesh for many years to come. In the
department of sociology social anthropology was taught as part of
the degree -only one course. The practice of anthropology was going
on through that dept. in a very small scale.
1952- Levi Strauss went for a short visit and described Bangladesh
as "Paradise of anthropological research" that stimulated many.
FIRST ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH: BARD was attracting few scholars from
outside the country to engage in social research.
Prof, Peter Bertocci from Michigan did his Ph.D research in Anthropology
at Comilla in connection with BARD in 1972 that was the first
anthropological research in Bangladesh.
Prof. Anwarullah Chowdhury of Sociology dept. at Dhaka university
did the first anthroplogical research among any Bangladeshi's,
who was a student of Andre Betteille in his Ph.D level.
In around 1980's there was a process going on for establishment of
anthropology as more and more were getting their degrees in social
anthropology in Ph.D level. Prof. Nazmul karim, prof, Anwarullah
Chowdhuryand and few others wanted to open anthropology dept.
at Dhaka but since it was already a big university establishing new
department become challenging to convince administrator .In the
mean time another university thatbwa is just opening were consulting
about the possible subjects to open with . Initially the proposal was
to open sociology dept but prof.N.K ,Prof. A.C and few others demanded
it should be anthropology instead of sociology and in 1985 -the first
department of anthropology was established at Jahangirnagar University.
Anthropology at Dhaka University actually started in 1993
and Professor Chowdhury was the founder of the dept.
Now in total 5 universities have separate anthropology departments
in Bangladesh.
Initial research :initial research was mainly on social organization,
rural class structure social inequality, Agrarian structure,
Kinship pattern, Belief system, different professional communities,
mainly these were the focus of studies . This was largely the case
for India too.
About the trend of anthropology in Bangladesh -I think the focus of
is very much on the applied side of social anthropology, physical
anthropology is not that much developed, Issue that mainly centered
around development anthropology, emphasis on rural communities,
Issues of ethnicity and nationalism are the main problem field
of present focus..
A process of vernacular movement is also in progress.
21st February is the international mother language day ,
that is to honor the sacrifice of Bangladesh on 21st February
for the mother language Bengali. Pakistan, thought minority
in terms of population, were pressing as the power holder,
that Urdu should be the mother language and in the process of
movement against it some Bangladeshi's were killed by
Pakistani force including some Dhaka University students
on 21st February. And that day became the mother language day.
It stimulated many to practice anthropology in Bengali.
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