This two-volume set explores how anthropology should respond to and engage with cultural change in the modern world.
Anthropology in the twenty-first century faces a worldview of cultural transformation based on communication, collision, and interaction among cultures around the globe. This two-volume set aims to reorient the role and function of anthropology by focusing on reconstructing knowledge and cultural consciousness to better envision and realize the synergetic interaction between different cultures and civilizations. The first volume discusses the manifestations of cultural transformation in the modern world and elucidates the importance of restoring cultural consciousness. The second volume examines how cultural consciousness enriches and reshapes the vision of anthropology and ethnographic writing. It explores the new paths and missions of Chinese anthropological studies and ethnographic writing, which should be grounded in the indigenous consciousness and cultural reservoir of China.
The set will appeal to anthropologists, students, and general readers interested in anthropology, sociology, and ethnography.
Volume 1: 1. Introduction 2. Rupture of Circling 3. From Cultural Transformation to Social Transformation 4. Escape from Separation Technology 5. Family, Education, and Separation Technology 6. Conception of Matter in the Post-Cultural Consciousness Era 7. Pristine Condition, Modern World, and the Era after Cultural Consciousness 8. Disaster, Art Works, and Irony 9. Enlightenment, Order, and Development Syndrome Volume 2: 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
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.
