The Anthropology of Reform and the Reform of Anthropology

Anthropological Narratives of Recovery and Progress in China

Bibliographic Data

ID7635265
AuthorsHarrell (0000-0002-6298-6712, University of Washington, corresponding author), Stevan Harrell (Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-3010)
Year2001
Volume30
Issue1
Pages139-161
Publication date2001-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290
PublisherAnnual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1146/annurev.anthro.30.1.139
OpenAlexW2161239710
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited89

Since the beginning of China's Reform and Opening policy in 1978, the anthropological study of China has revived, and anthropology as a discipline has revived in China. Chinese anthropologists have become part of the world community of anthropologists. Anthropology in and about China has described a society occupied both with recovery from the cultural devastation of High Socialism and with progress toward an uncertain modernity. These narratives of recovery and progress can be followed through the anthropological study of communities—rural, urban, and in between—of individuals' lives, including gender and sexuality, family and marriage, childhood and education, consumption and leisure, and of the nation and its constituent ethnic and regional parts

Applied anthropology · China · Cultural anthropology · Ethnic group · Modernity · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Socialism · Sociocultural anthropology · Sociology · Anthropology · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies