Find extended citations from this year’s selection committees for the Francis L. K. Hsu Book Prize and the SEAA Outstanding Graduate Student Paper at https://seaa.americananthro.org/awards/past-seaa-awards/ 2021 Francis L. Hsu Book PrizeWinnerSylvia M. Lindtner. Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation (Princeton University Press, 2020). Honorable MentionLyle Fearnley. Virulent Zones: Animal Disease and Global […]
Japan’s Disaster Artisans
How do craft breweries in Japan and the United States weather unforeseen crises?
Witnessing Disappearance in China during the Global Pandemic
The landscape of Islam within China has been changing rapidly during the pandemic. Ethnographic fieldwork can map these erasures and disappearances in everyday life.
Greetings from Sonia Ryang, SEAA President
In Lieu of the Annual Business Meeting for Members Dear SEAA members, I hope this finds every one of you safe and healthy. Due to the pandemic, the American Anthropological Association annual meeting for 2020 was cancelled and thus, in lieu of the SEAA business meeting, I am reaching out to you to recap the […]
Clinical Decision Making in Rural China
Why do so many patients choose the arduous hemodialysis treatment instead of kidney transplant? What do their clinical choices reveal about family life and the socioeconomic marginalization of migrant workers in China today?
Changing Mortuary Practices in Japan
A tale of two cemeteries in northern Osaka shows us much about recent changes in Japanese mortuary traditions.