This essay reviews recent anthropological attention to the “beginnings” and “endings” of life.
A large literature since the 1990s highlights the analytic trends and innovations that …

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In this fully revised and updated second edition of An Anthropology of Biomedicine, authors
Lock and Nguyen introduce biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the …

Biocapital is a major theoretical contribution to science studies and political economy.
Grounding his analysis in a multi-sited ethnography of genomic research and drug …

Described as the biggest migration in human history, an estimated 250 million Chinese
people have left their villages in recent decades to live and work in urban areas. Xinyuan …

The word suzhi has become central to contemporary China governance and society.
Reference to suzhi justifies social and political hierarchies of all sorts, with those of “high” …

Much contemporary anthropology is concerned with the origin, character, and
consequences of late modernity. Surprisingly absent in this literature is the importance of …

The article challenges the notion that below‐replacement fertility and its local variation in
China are primarily attributable to the government's birth planning policy. Data from the 2000 …

In the years leading up to and directly following rapprochement with China in 1992, the
South Korean government looked to ethnic Korean (Chosǒnjok) brides and laborers from …

This book is intended as a reflection on the question of modernity. It has two general
orientations. One is anthropological. What this means, simply put for now, is three things …