Professor
Areas of Expertise
Religion and ritual, environment, political change and civil life, anthropological theory, China and Taiwan
View Professor Weller’s CV – September 2024
About
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Selected Publications
- 2023 “Religion in the Folded City: Origami and the Boundaries of the Chronotope” (co-author, with Keping Wu). Comparative Studies in Society and History 65(4): 779-800 (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417523000257).
- 2021. “Censorship, Foreclosure, and the Three Deaths of Fengzhen.” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 11(2): 619-634.
- 2021. “Overnight Urbanization and Changing Spirits: Disturbed Ecosystems in Southern Jiangsu” (co-author, with Keping Wu). Current Anthropology 62(5): 602-630 (including commentaries and response).
- 2019. How Things Count as the Same: Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor (with Adam Seligman). New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- 2018. Religion and Charity: The Social Life of Goodness in Chinese Societies (with Chien-yu Julia Huang and Keping Wu). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- 2017. “Salvaging Silence: Exile, Death, and the Anthropology of the Unknown.” Anthropology of this Century, 19 (May): http://aotcpress.com/articles/salvaging-silence/, 2017.
Courses
- CAS AN 379 China: Tradition and Transition
- CAS AN 568 Symbol, Myth, and Rite
- CAS AN 573 The Ethnography of Taiwan and China
- CAS AN 590 Theory, Method, and Techniques in Fieldwork
- CAS AN 704 Contemporary Anthropological Theory