Cornell University Emblemthe department of Anthropology
Faculty
P. Steven Sangren
Office: McGraw 222
Phone: (607) 255-6771

Selected Publications


Book and Monographs:
2000 Chinese Sociologics: An Anthropological Account of the Role of Alienation in Social Reproduction. London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology, Volume 72. London: Athlone Press.
1987 History and Magical Power in a Chinese Community. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Journal Articles:
1995 "Power" against Ideology: A Critique of Foucaultian Usage. Cultural Anthropology 10,1 (February):3-40.
1993 Power and Transcendence in the Ma Tsu Pilgrimages of Taiwan. American Ethnologist 20:264-282.
1991
Dialectics of Alienation: Individuals and Collectivities in Chinese Religion. Man 26:67-86.
1988 History and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy: The Ma Tsu Cult of Taiwan. Comparative Studies in Society and History 30:674-697.
  Rhetoric and the Authority of Ethnography: "Post-Modernism" and the Social Reproduction of Texts. Current Anthropology 29:405-435.
1985 Social Space and the Periodization of Economic History: A Case from Taiwan. Comparative Studies in Society and History 27:531-61.
1984 Traditional Chinese Corporations: Beyond Kinship. Journal of Asian Studies 43:391-415.
1983 Female Gender in Chinese Religious Symbols: Kuan Yin, Ma Tsu, and "The Eternal Mother." Signs 9:4-25.