Applied Ethnology in China

As applied social scientists, we need to be reminded occasionally that our theoretical and research orientations, as they focus on understanding various aspects of culture, are themselves products of culture, influenced by history, ideology and problem solving in a particular sociopolitical context. This was brought home to us at the 1989 SfAA Annual Meeting in Santa Fe when a delegation of five Chinese ethnologists presented papers at a plenary session. By describing examples of the use of social science in their society, the Chinese ethnologists provided us with a special opportunity to gain a comparative perspective on our discipline as well as its applications

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