Stafford, Charles
Professor Charles Stafford
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Experience keywords:
ritual; cognition; social anthropology; Taiwan; religion; cognition; anthropology of learning; China; economic psychology; child development; learning and nationalism
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Charles Stafford is a specialist in the anthropology of China and Taiwan. His research has focused primarily on child development, learning, kinship, religion and economics. He is also interested in the relationship between anthropology and philosophy. Professor Stafford’s first major fieldwork project was conducted in the late 1980s in a Taiwanese fishing community where he examined the relationship between nationalist schooling and Taiwanese popular religion. In the early 1990s he began to conduct research in mainland China on issues related to kinship, religion, and Chinese historical consciousness. During this research, he became especially interested in rituals and practices of "separation and reunion," which help to structure the flow of social life in rural communities. More recently, Professor Stafford has conducted fieldwork, funded by the ESRC, on learning and economic life in rural China and Taiwan. He is currently developing a collaborative research project with colleagues at Nanjing University which will focus on economic life from a cognitive anthropological perspective.
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Countries and regions to which research relates:
Taiwan; China
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Media experience:
Radio; TV
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The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.
Stafford, Charles (2013) Introduction: ordinary ethics in China today. In: Stafford, Charles, (ed.) Ordinary ethics in China today. Bloomsbury Academic, London, UK. ISBN 9780857854599 Stafford, Charles, (ed.) (2013) Ordinary ethics in China. Bloomsbury Academic, London, UK. ISBN 9780857854599 Stafford, Charles (2013) Some good and bad people in the countryside. In: Stafford, Charles, (ed.) Ordinary Ethics In China. Bloomsbury Academic, London, UK. ISBN 9780857854599 Stafford, Charles (2012) Misfortune and what can be done about it: a Taiwanese case study. Social analysis, 56 (2). pp. 90-102. ISSN 0155-977X Stafford, Charles (2010) The punishment of ethical behaviour. In: Lambek, Michael, (ed.) Ordinary ethics: anthropology, language, and action . Fordham University Press, New York, UK, pp. 187-206. ISBN 9780823233175 Stafford, Charles (2008) Actually existing Chinese matriarchy. In: Brandtstädter, Susanne and Santos, Gonçalo D., (eds.) Chinese kinship: contemporary anthropological perspectives. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon, UK, pp. 137-153. ISBN 9780415456975 Stafford, Charles (2007) What is going to happen next? In: Astuti, Rita and Parry, Jonathan and Stafford, Charles, (eds.) Questions of anthropology. Berg, Oxford, UK, pp. 55-76. ISBN 9781845207489 Stafford, Charles and Astuti, Rita and Parry, J. P, (eds.) (2007) Questions of anthropology. Berg, London, UK. ISBN 9781845207496 Stafford, Charles (2007) What is interesting about Chinese religion. In: Sarro, Ramon and Berliner, David, (eds.) Learning religion: anthropological approaches. Berghahn Books, Oxford, UK, pp. 177-190. ISBN 9781845453749 Stafford, Charles (2006) Deception, corruption and the Chinese ritual economy. In: Latham, Kevin and Thompson, Stuart and Klein, Jacob, (eds.) Consuming China: approaches to cultural change in contemporary China. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 42-55. ISBN 9780700714025 Stafford, Charles (2003) Language and numerical learning in rural China and Taiwan. Terrain, 40 pp. 65-80. ISSN 1777-5450 Stafford, Charles (2003) Living with separation in China: anthropological accounts. RoutledgeCurzon, New York, US. ISBN 0415305713 Stafford, Charles (1999) Separation, reunion and the Chinese attachment to place. In: Internal and international migration: Chinese perspectives. Curzon Press, London. ISBN 9780700710768
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