Helen Siu

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Professor of Anthropology
helen.siu@yale.edu
203-432-3680
Address: 
10 Sachem St, Room 112, New Haven, CT 06511
Website
Areas of interest : 
Chinese Social Anthropology; Historical and Ethnographic Fieldwork in South China and Hong Kong; Socialist and Post-Socialist Transformations; Revival of Market Towns, Community Festivals, and Rituals; Migration and Vernacular Modernity; Rural-Urban Divide in China; Cross-Border Dynamics in Hong Kong, Historical and Contemporary Asian Connections
Region: 
China, Transregional

Courses

ANTH 342

Cultures and Markets in Asia

Historical and contemporary movements of people, goods, and cultural meanings that have defined Asia as a region. Reexamination of state-centered conceptualizations of Asia and of established boundaries in regional studies. The intersections of transregional institutions and local societies and their effects on trading empires, religious traditions, colonial encounters, and cultural fusion. Finance flows that connect East Asia and the Indian Ocean to the Middle East and Africa. The cultures of capital and market in the neoliberal and postsocialist world.

Term: Fall 2019
Day/Time: T 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM
ANTH 542

Cultures and Markets: Asia Connected through Time and Space

Historical and contemporary movements of people, goods, and cultural meanings that have defined Asia as a region. Reexamination of state-centered conceptualizations of Asia and of established boundaries in regional studies. The intersections of transregional institutions and local societies and their effects on trading empires, religious traditions, colonial encounters, and cultural fusion. Finance flows that connect East Asia and the Indian Ocean to the Middle East and Africa. The cultures of capital and market in the neoliberal and postsocialist world.

Term: Fall 2019
Day/Time: T 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM