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Anthropology Colloquium Fall Series

Macau, the Cultural Revolution, and the 1960s World - Multi-Scalar Approaches in (and to) Action ● Speaker: Cathryn Clayton - Department of Asian Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at ����ԴDz� ● In December 1966, public protests shook Macau, a city on China’s southern coast that had been governed by Portugal since the 16th century, bringing the Portuguese administration to its knees. Often understood as a minor, peripheral, inevitable manifestation of China’s Cultural Revolution, the 123 Incident (as it is called, since it centered on acts of violence that occurred on December 3) was a small affair– one that looms large in local memory. In this talk, I bridge historical and ethnographic methodologies to advocate for the multi-scalar approach to thinking about collective action: an approach that accounts for the mutual constitution of global, national and local processes, and leaves room for the multiple and often contradictory ways these events are remembered and narrated by their participants. Dr. Clayton earned a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her first book, Sovereignty at the Edge, Macau and the Question of Chineseness won the 2010 Francis L. Hsu Prize for best new book in East Asian Studies, awarded by the Society for East Asian Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association.

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Anthropology, Mānoa Campus

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Marti Kerton, 808-956-7153, anthprog@hawaii.edu, , Clayton (PDF)