The anthropology of China

By Stephan Feuchtwang

Subjects: Food, Ethnology, china, Families, China, social life and customs, Manners and customs, Family, china, Social life and customs, Ethnology

Description: Introduction -- Anthropology of China : history, regionalism and comparison -- Kinship as ideology and as corporation -- Relatedness and gender -- Love, emotion and sentiment -- The exchange of money, gifts and favours -- The localization and globalization of food -- Nature, environment and activism -- Ritual and belief -- Hospitality -- The stranger king and the outside of an imperial civilisation -- The anthropology of the modern state in China -- Conclusion