1st Edition

Anthropology of Cultural Transformation I Togetherness and Separation

By Xudong Zhao Copyright 2024
204 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

As the first of a two-volume set on the anthropology of cultural transformation, this book discusses the manifestations of cultural transformation in the modern world and explores the re-establishment of cultural consciousness. Anthropology in the 21st century is confronted with a worldview of cultural transformation based on communication, collision, and interaction among cultures around the... Read more

List of figure and table

Introduction

1 Rupture of circling

2 From cultural transformation to social transformation

3 Escape from separation technology

4 Family, education, and separation technology

5 Conception of matter in the post-cultural consciousness era

6 Pristine condition, the modern world, and the era after cultural consciousness

7 Disaster, art works, and irony

8 Enlightenment, order, and development syndrome

Index



Biography

Xudong Zhao is the director of the Institute of Anthropology at Renmin University of China (RUC) and a professor at the College of Sociology and Population, RUC. His research interests include the theories of anthropology and cultural studies, political and legal anthropology, and rural research in China.