Anthropology of Cultural Transformation II

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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

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