Emily Chao, PhD
Professor of Anthropology
- With Pitzer Since: 1996
- Field Group: Anthropology
- Campus Address: Holden M175
- Phone: 909.607.2728
- Email: emily_chao@pitzer.edu
- Education:
President's Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
M.A., New School for Social Research
B.A., University of California, Berkeley
Recent Courses
- Introduction to Nepal (ANTH16)
- The History of Anthropological Theory (ANTH 153)
- Food, Culture, Power (ANTH9)
- Sex, Body, Reproduction (ANTH50)
- China: Gender, Cosmology, and the State (ANTH88)
- China in the 21st Century: Gender, Culture, Nation (ANTH99)
Selected Publications:
- Lijiang Stories: Shamans, Taxi drivers, Runaway Brides, and Entrepreneurs in Reform Era China. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2012.
- “Layered Alterities: Discourses of the Other in Lijiang, China,” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, vol.34, no.2 (September 2008).
- “Dangerous Work: Women in Traffic,” Modern China, vol.29, no.1 (January 2003).
- “The Maoist Shaman and the Madman: Ritual Bricolage, Failed Ritual, and Failed Ritual Theory,” Cultural Anthropology, vol.14, no.4 (1999).
Recent Conferences and Invited Talks:
- “Ethnicizations of Marital Marginality: Bride Abduction and Elopement In Lijiang,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Montreal, Canada, November 16, 2011.
- Panel chair, “China's Ethnic Peripheries,” paper presented at the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast/Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, June 18, 2011.
- “Capitalizing on Ethnicity: Agency and the Recirculation of Authenticity in China's Southwest,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA, November 2010.
- Panel chair, “Circulating Identities in East and West China,” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA, November 2010.