Steinmuller, Hans
Dr Hans Steinmuller
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Experience keywords:
political and economic anthropology; gambling; post-socialism; China; moralities and ethics; ritual; irony
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Hans Steinmuller is a specialist in the anthropology of China. He has conducted long-term fieldwork in the Enshi region of Hubei Province in central China, focusing on family, work, ritual, and the local state. The main objects of his research are the ethics of everyday life in rural China, but he has also written on topics such as gambling, rural development, and Chinese geomancy (fengshui). Recently he has started a new research project on craftsmanship and carpentry in central China.
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Countries and regions to which research relates:
Zambia; China
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Languages: French [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Basic]; German [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; Spanish [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; Chinese [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]
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Media experience:
Has written for mainstream press; Radio
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The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.
Steinmüller, Hans (2013) Communities of complicity: everyday ethics in rural China. Berghahn Books, New York, USA. ISBN 9780857458902 Steinmüller, Hans (2013) The ethics of irony: work, family and fatherland in rural China. In: Stafford, Charles, (ed.) Ordinary ethics in China. Bloomsbury, London, UK. ISBN 9780857854599 Steinmüller, Hans (2012) Book review: China and postsocialist anthropology: theorizing power and society after communism - by Andrew Kipnis. Journal of the royal anthropological institute, 18 (2). pp. 481-483. ISSN 1359-0987 Steinmüller, Hans (2011) The reflective peephole method: ruralism and awkwardness in the ethnography of rural China. Australian journal of anthropology, 22 (2). pp. 220-235. ISSN 1757-6547 Steinmüller, Hans (2011) The moving boundaries of social heat: gambling in rural China. Journal of the royal anthropological institute, 17 (2). pp. 263-280. ISSN 1359-0987 Steinmüller, Hans (2011) The state of irony in China. Critique of anthropology, 31 (1). pp. 21-42. ISSN 0308-275X Steinmüller, Hans (2010) How popular Confucianism became embarrassing: on the spatial and moral centre of the house in rural China. Focaal: journal of global and historical anthropology, 2010 (58). pp. 81-96. ISSN 0920-1297
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