News and Awards
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Anthropology Ryan Cecil Jobson is among the 2023 cohort receiving a
Lectures on the Social Semiotics of Language
By Michael Silverstein
3CT’s Future Café series allows students in the College to theorize about the future in intellectually engaging, student-facilitated discussions
By Manny Adewale
Monday, March 6, 2023
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Department Events
April 10, 2023
Monday Seminar | Hearing Heat: An Anthropocene Acoustemology Steven Feld | (VoxLox Media Arts) |
April 17, 2023
Monday Seminar | The privatisation of ambition in China Biao Xiang | (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) |
April 24, 2023
Monday Seminar | Nancy Munn Memorial |
May 1, 2023
Monday Seminar | On Planetarity Dipesh Chakrabarty | (University of Chicago) |
May 15, 2023
Monday Seminar | Michael Hathaway |
Spotlight
JING LIN
Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork methods, Jing Lin's work investigates the ways in which religious symbols and ritual practices mediate everyday life in China. Lin has published papers on the linguistic and pragmatic features of Taoist talismans and incantations in the Song Dynasty (960-1279 CE), on Christian soundscapes in contemporary China, and she has worked on the audio dimensions of a documentary project concerning vehicular worlds in China. Lin's current work examines key thresholds of risk and uncertainty in Chinese social life, examining the contemporary efficacies of Taoist practices and the relevance of material culture in the ways people negotiate rites of passage.
Lin is an associate professor at Fujian Normal University and a visiting scholar in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.