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Introduction: The Multi-Sited History of the Anthropology of Korea

Five of the articles appearing in this special issue of The Journal of Korean Studies (JKS) were first presented at a short seminar at the School for Advanced Research (SAR) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, convened around the same theme in November 2013. The sixth, Jong-pil Yoon’s consideration of Maurice Courant, was submitted independently to the JKS and added to the issue by mutual consent after it became clear that its subject dovetailed with the other collected papers. Ordinarily, the venue of an originating workshop or seminar is of precious little interest to readers of the ultimate published volume of contributions. Yet, as is said about the settings of certain novels and films, SAR was more important than usual for the story we were collectively trying to put together in 2013. Over the years, the institution has hosted a number of seminars that have led to important developments in anthropological theory across the four fields of the discipline— physical/biological, linguistic, cultural anthropology, and archaeology—as it is commonly constituted in the United States.1 SAR has also maintained a strong interest in Native American studies and issues and has upheld a concern for anthropology’s own past, two topics that, in the North American anthropological tradition at least, are often considered nearly coterminous insofar as early American anthropology is understood to have been dominated by the study of the indigenous peoples of North America.2 Indeed, while SAR has long been caught up in the debates of a discipline now global in both practice and subject matter, its own name has been slower to change; until 2007, the acronym stood for the School of American Research.3 Our seminar sought to be in dialogue with