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Focuses on the dialogue between the American anthropological tradition and Korea, from Korea's first treaty with the United States to the end of World War II, with the goal of rereading anthropology's history and theoretical development through its Pacific frontier.

Kyongju is the archeological site of the royal capital of the first millennium kingdom of Silla. This book uses the controversy spurred by the proposed routing of South Korea's high-speed railway line through Kyongju, to detail a battle in which the futures of Korean democracy, national culture, and Kyongju development were said to be at stake.