TyingKnots is an independent group committed to introducing anthropological perspectives, studies, and engagements to the Chinese-speaking public. We share short articles, translated essays, book and article reviews, interviews, commentaries, emergent ethnographies, multimedia presentations, and other anthropologically-informed works.
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Research interestsAnthropology of Islam; New Media and Global Communication; Sound Studies and Podcasting; Feminist Theories and Practices; Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism; Contemporary China and Sinophone Worlds
Editorial attentionGender and women; Religion, nation and modernity; Ethnographic writing and methods; Anthropological cross-disciplinary practice and pedagogy; Translation; Public scholarship
Research interestsMedical anthropology; Economic anthropology; Animal studies; Chinese medicines; East Africa; Afro-Asia
Editorial attentionMulti-species; Transnationalism and mobility; Race and ethnicity; Globalization and capitalism; Oceanic anthropology; Ethnographic writing; Feminism
Research interestsAnthropology of morality and ethics; Medical anthropology; Child rearing; Psycho boom; Family and intimacy; Disability studies
Editorial attentionMental disability and neurodevelopmental disorders; Violence; Care; Hope; Body and mind; Urban ethnography; Human–nonhuman relations
Research interestsValue theory; Semiotics and linguistic anthropology; Social studies of education; Economic anthropology; Social movements; Labor and action; Literacy and reading; Ritual and religion; STS; Historical anthropology; Space-time; Political anthropology; Media and journalism
Editorial attentionPublic anthropology; Emergent issues; Education; Language; Environment; Economy; Politics; Methodology; Knowledge production; Histories and philosophies of anthropology and the social sciences
Research interestsDisability studies; Medical anthropology; Science, technology and society; New media and political communication
Editorial attentionAccessible cities; Universal design; Sign language and Deaf cultures; Cross-disability rights movements; Media representation of disability; Ethnographic methods
We welcome anthropologically-informed research, translations, reviews, interviews, emergent fieldwork and multimedia work. Write to tyingknots2020@gmail.com.
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