1st Edition

Anthropology of Cultural Transformation

376 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

376 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.