Anthropology of Cultural Transformation II - Chinese Consciousness and Ethnography Writing

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Xudong Zhao
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032679013
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3267901-3
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: China Perspectives
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Anthropology;Cultural Anthropology;Cultural Transformation