1st Edition

Anthropology of Cultural Transformation II Chinese Consciousness and Ethnography Writing

By Xudong Zhao Copyright 2024
158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

This book is the second of a two-volume set on the anthropology of cultural transformation. It examines how cultural consciousness enriches and reshapes the vision of anthropology and ethnographic writing. Anthropology in the twenty-first century is confronted with a worldview of cultural transformation based on communication, collision, and interaction among cultures around the globe. This... Read more

List of tables

1 “Demolition” of Beijing: Memory and forgetting

2 Individual Consciousness, Problem Awareness, and Native Anthropology

3 Ethnography of Places and Ethnography of Clues

4 Chinese Consciousness and the Three Worlds of Anthropological Research

5 Why Is Chinese Anthropology Far Away from Rivers?

6 Towards a Chinese Phase of Anthropology

7 From Civilization-Barbarism Distinction to Harmonious Communication

Postscript

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.