Anthropology of Cultural Transformation

ISBN-13: 9781032678016 / Mixed media product / 2024 / 488 str.

Xudong Zhao

Opis

This two-volume set explores how anthropology should respond to and engage with cultural change in the modern world.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.