AN425 Half Unit Not available in 2008/09
The Anthropology of China
This information is for the 2008/09 session.
Teacher responsible
Professor S Feuchtwang, A613 Availability
For MSc Social Anthropology and MSc Anthropology and Development. Course content
The ethnography of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore; anthropological approaches to issues in Chinese kinship, religion, education and political-economy.
Chinese kinship: descent, lineages and ancestral cults, marriage, affinity and gender. Chinese popular religion: Daoism, Buddhism and Confucianism; local religion and the community; pilgrimage, spirit mediumship and healing. Literacy, education and nationalism in China; popular culture and the state. Anthropological studies of the Chinese economy. Teaching
Lectures AN425 weekly, Seminars AN425.A weekly. Formative coursework
Students are expected to prepare discussion material for presentation in the seminars. Reading list
E Ahern, Chinese Ritual and Politics; D Davis & S Harrell (Eds), Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era; H Baker & S Feuchtwang (Eds), An Old State in New Settings; S Feuchtwang, The Imperial Metaphor: Popular Religion in China; P Steven Sangren, History and Magical Power in a Chinese Community; C Stafford, The Roads of Chinese Childhood; R Watson & P Ebrey (Eds), Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society; J Watson & E Rawski (Eds), Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China; H Gates, China’s Motor: A thousand years of petty capitalism.
Detailed reading lists are provided at the beginning of the course.
Assessment
There is a two-hour examination in the ST. ^
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