王斯福(Stephan Feuchtwang)

王斯福(Stephan Feuchtwang)

王斯福(Stephan Feuchtwang),复旦大学社会科学高等研究院学术委员。

STEPHAN FEUCHTWANG

SHORT CV


Born: 8th November 1937, Berlin
Nationality: British


Address: Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics, London WC2A 2AE, UK
Telephone: + 44 207 727 0820
E-mail: S.Feuchtwang@lse.ac.uk


Present positions

Professor in the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics, University of London, 1998- present. Director of MSc China in Comparative Perspective 2006-present

Honorary Professorial Research Associate, Centre of Chinese Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1998-present


Qualifications
BA Chinese 1961 (Oxford), MA Social Anthropology 1964 (LSE), PhD Social Anthropology 1974 (London)


Previous Employment
Lecturer in social anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1968-73
Lecturer in sociology, City University 1973-90
Reader in Sociology and Social Anthropology, City University 1990-1995
Professor of Social Anthropology, City University 1995-1998
Senior Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics 1998-2006


Recent Research history

on rural social support arrangements and rural development in China, including field visits, 1988, 1991, 1992. Funded by the British Academy, the British Council, and the Economic and Social Research Council of the UK (R 000-23-2585, GBP177,110. from 01.12.90 to 31.07.93);

on religious and historical revival and local political culture in Taiwan and Fujian, including field visits in 1995. Funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Taiwan (RG 002 U 93, US$120,000, from 01.10.94 to 20.09.96);

for the promotion of the anthropology of China into more general comparisons and debates on anthropological issues, an institutional grant to the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics for three years by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Taiwan (IE-001-U-97, GBP58,824, from 1.10.98 to 30.9.2001);

On the transmission and recognition of grievous loss, in Taiwan, mainland China, and Germany for four years funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (R000239521)
GBP 165,510, from 1.1.2002 - 31.01.2006


Professional

President of the British Association for Chinese Studies (1999-2002)

Core editorial board of Critique of Anthropology (Sage), 1996-present

Member of the Asian Studies Panel for the Higher Education Funding Council of England’s Research Assessment Exercise 1996 and 2001

Member of the international peer review panel of the work of the Institute for Ethnological Research, Aacademia Sinica, Taiwan in  2002  and 2008


Selected, recent publications

Books

Popular Religion in China: The Imperial Metaphor (new edition, with a new chapter on contemporary China), Richmond: Curzon Press, 2000

(with Wang Mingming) Grassroots Charisma in China, London and New York: Routledge 2001

An Anthropological Analysis of Chinese Geomancy (new edition with a new chapter on the history of Chinese geomancy), Bangkok, White Lotus 2002

Edited books

with Hugh Baker, An Old State in New Settings; Studies in the Social Anthropology of China in Memory of Maurice Freedman, JASO, Oxford, 1991 (includes a chapter as sole author, ‘“A Chinese religion exists”; an interpretation of Maurice Freedman’s work on Chinese religion’, pp 139-161)

with Georg Elwert and Dieter Neubert, The Dynamics of Violence, Sociologus Supplement 1, 1999. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot (includes, with Georg Elwert and Dieter Neubert ‘The dynamics of collective violence; an introduction’ pp 9- 31)

Making Place: State projects, globalisation and local responses in China, University College London Press, 2004

Chapters in Books

 ‘Distant homes, our genre; recognising Chinese lives as an anthropologist’ in Paul Thompson (ed), Narrative and Genre, Routledge, 1998 pp 126-141

 'What is a village?’ in Edouard Vermeer and Frank Pieke (eds), Cooperative and Collective in China’s Rural Development, M.E.Sharpe, 1998 pp 46-74

 'Religion as resistance’ in Mark Selden and Elizabeth Perry (eds) Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance. London and New York: Routledge 1999 pp 161-177

'Reinscriptions; commemoration and the transmission of histories and memories under modern states in Asia and Europe’ in Susannah Radstone (ed), Memory and Methodology, Oxford and New York: Berg, 2000. pp 59-78

'Chinese religions' in Linda Woodhead et al (eds), Religion in the Modern World: Traditions and Transformations. London and New York: Routledge 2001

'Remnants of revolution in China' in Chris Hann (ed), Postsocialism: Ideals, Ideologies and Practices in Eurasia. London and New York: Routledge 2002 pp 196-213

'The General and the Immortal’ in Anders Hansson with Bonnie McDougall and Frances Weightman (eds), The Chinese at Play: Festival, Games and Leisure. London: Kegan Paul, 2002 pp 34-54 

'Reflections on privacy in China' in Bonnie McDougall & Anders Hansson (eds) Chinese Concepts of Privacy. Leiden: Brill, 2002 pp 211-230 

'An unsafe distance' in Charles Stafford (ed), Living with Separation in China: Anthropological Accounts. London and New York: Routledge 2003 pp 85-112

'Loss: transmissions, recognitions, authorisations' in Susannah Radstone and Katharine Hodgkin (eds) Regimes of Memory. London and New York: Routledge 2003 pp 76-90. Reprinted in paperback in Radstone and Hodgkin (eds) Memory Cultures: Memory, Subjectivity and Recognition. Transaction Publishing

'Theorising place' in Stephan Feuchtwang (ed), Making Place: State projects, globalisation and local responses in China. London: University College of London Press 2004 pp 1-34

'Curves and the urbanisation of Meifa village' in Stephan Feuchtwang (ed), Making Place: State projects, globalisation and local responses in China. London: University College of London Press 2004 pp 163-179

One of the ‘Longer contemplations’ in Liu, Xin (ed) New Reflections on Anthropological Studies of (greater) China, China Research Monograph, University of California, Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 2004 pp 97-106

'Three gestures in a poetics of place: Chinese settlement and disruption’ in Tony Atkin and Joseph Rykwert (eds) Structure and Meaning in Human Settlements. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2006 pp 107-121

'Memorials to injustice’ in Duncan Bell (ed) Memory, Trauma and World Politics. Houndsmill, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 2006

'Public emotions in a colonial context: a case of spirit writing in Taiwan under Japanese occupation’ in Amal Treacher, Perry 6 and Sussannah Radstone (eds) Public Emotions. Houndsmill: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007

'Centres and margins: the organization of extravagance as self-government’ in Frances Pine and Joao Pina-Cabral (eds) On the Margins of Religion. Beghahn Books. 2008 pp 135-150

'Belonging to what? Jewish mixed kinship and historical disruption’ in Jane Carsten (ed) Ghosts of Memory; Essays on Remembrance and Relatedness. Blackwell. 2007
In German, slightly revised, special issue of Berliner Debatte Volume 3 ‘Erinnerung an Gewalt (Violence and Memory) edited by Tsypylma Darieva and Ingrid Oswald (2007)

'The transmission of traumatic loss: a case study from Taiwan’ in Nicolas Argenti and Katharina Schramm (eds) Violence and Memory. Berghahn. 2008 pp

'Disruption, commemoration and family repair’ in Goncalo Duro dos Santos and Susanne Brandtstädter (eds) Chinese Kinship and Relatedness. 2008 pp.

'History and the transmission of shared loss: The Great Leap famine in China and the Luku Incident in Taiwan’ in Eric Sautede (ed) History and Memory 2008. Macao: Matteo Ricci Institute. Pp 163-189

'Afterword’ in Shih Fang-long, Paul-Francois Tremlett, and Stuart Thompson (eds) Rewriting Culture in Taiwan. 2008

Articles

'The politics of culture or a contest of histories: representations of Chinese popular religion' (with Wang Mingming), Dialectical Anthropology 16, 1991, pp.251-271

'Historical metaphor: a study of religious representation and the recognition of authority', Man: The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Vol 28 No 1, March 1993, pp.35-49

'Political judgment and academic freedom’, Identities 33, 1998 pp 1-9

'Peasants, democracy and anthropology: questions of local loyalty' Critique of Anthropology 23:1, 2003 pp 93-120

'Tales of territoriality', Etudes Rurales 163 and 164, 2003, pp 249-266

'Mythical moments in national and other family histories’ History Workshop Journal, issue 59, 2005 pp 251-265

'Between civilizations: one side of a dialogue’ in Social Identities 12: 1, a special issue guest edited by Arvind Mandair and Cosimo Zene, 2007 pp 79-94

with Fang-long Shih and Paul-Francois Tremlett ‘The formation and function of the category ‘religion’ in anthropological studies of Taiwan’ Method & Theory in the Study of Religion Vol 18 (2006) pp 37-66

'Images of sub-humanity and their realisation’ in a special issue of Critique of Anthropology on State Violence, guest edited by Tobias Kelly and Alpa Shah. (2006) vol 26 no 3 pp 259-278

'On religious ritual as deference and excessive communication’ Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 2007 vol 13 no 1 pp 57-72                    

'India and China as spiritual nations: a comparative anthropology of histories’ in Frank Pieke (invited ed) Anthropology of Contemporary China. Special issue of Social Anthropology 19, 1 2009