It Happens Among People

Keping Wu is Associate Professor at the Department of China Studies in Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Trained as an anthropologist, she had previous teaching and research positions at Sun Yat-sen University, National University of Singapore, and The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has recently published Religion and Charity: The Social Life of Goodness in Chinese Societies, co-authored with Robert P. Weller and Julia Huang (Cambridge, 2018).

“While Barth might not be the ‘star author’ in fashion in academia today, invisible in many of the scholarly discourses, he is without any doubt a member of the small group of anthropologists who will be a source of inspiration for generations to come…I highly recommend this book, especially for readers interested in the future of anthropology and Barth’s place in it. Clearly, Barth keeps fuelling new thoughts and perspectives in the global anthropological community.” • Anthropology Book Forum“The entire volumes testifies to Barth’s long-lived relevance in anthropological theory and practice.” • Choice“This is an unusually interesting volume. Part conventional Festschrift for Fredrik Barth (one of the most significant and influential anthropologists, also one of the most original and distinctive, of the second half of the twentieth century), but also part record and outcome of Barth’s specific influence in China and makes for a very distinctive volume.” • James Laidlaw, University of Cambridge

• List of FiguresIntroductionRobert P. Weller and Keping WuChapter 1. Humility First: Fredrik Barth in His Own Words – and MineUnni WikanChapter 2. Transacting Knowledge and Value: Fredrik Barth and the Tactics of Mutual IncomprehensionMichael HerzfeldChapter 3. Cosmologies in the Remaking: Variation and Time in Chinese Temple ReligionRobert P. WellerChapter 4. Building Infrastructure and Making Boundaries in Southwest ChinaKeping WuChapter 5. On Nomads of South PersiaThomas BarfieldChapter 6. The Language of Trust and BetrayalGunnar HaalandChapter 7. Khan and Sufi:  Two Types of Authority in Swat, Northern PakistanCharles LindholmChapter 8. Values and the Value of Secrecy: Barthian Reflections on Values and the Nature of Mountain Ok Social ProcessJoel RobbinsChapter 9. Paradigm Change in Chinese Ethnology and Fredrik Barth’s InfluenceKe FanChapter 10. An Overall Generative Approach: Fredrik Barth's Contribution to Anthropological Research and WritingChee-Beng TanAfterword: A Rooted Cosmopolitan RememberedUlf HannerzIndex