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).Robert P. Weller is Professor of Anthropology at Boston University. Most of his work concentrates on Chinese societies in a comparative context, frequently with a focus on the problem of religious meaning and authority. His most recent book is How Things Count as the Same: Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor, co-authored with Adam Seligman (Oxford, 2019). He is currently working on urbanization and religious change.

• 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

"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