Journal of China in Global and Comparative Perspectives

About the author

George Marcus (乔治·马尔库斯) is Chancellor’s Professor and Chair of Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine, USA. He is Founding Editor of Cultural Anthropology, Editor of The Late Editions Series of Annuals (1993-2000). His research interests are in the fields of elites, ethnography, cultural critique and Pacific studies. His publications include Writing Culture: The Politics and Poetics of Ethnography (1986, co-edited with James Clifford), Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Movement in the Human Sciences (1986, co-authored with Michael M. J. Fischer), Rereading Cultural Anthropology (1992), Ethnography through Thick and Thin (1998), Critical Anthropology Now: Unexpected Contexts, Shifting Constituencies, Changing Agendas (1998, with the contribution of Paul Rabinow), Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary (2008), and Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be (2009, co-edited with James Faubion).