Stafford, Charles

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Article

Kajanus, Anni, Stafford, Charles (2024). Irritation, cooperation and human relationships. Current Anthropology, [In Press] picture_as_pdf

Carsten, Janet, Day, Sophie, Stafford, Charles (2018). Introduction: reason and passion: the parallel worlds of ethnography and biography. Social Anthropology, 26(1), 5 - 14. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12490

Stafford, Charles (2018). Moral judgement close to home. Social Anthropology, 26(1), 117-129. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12480

Das, Veena, Al-Mohammad, Hayder, Robbins, Joel, Stafford, Charles (2015). There is no such thing as the good: the 2013 meeting of the group for debates in anthropological theory. Critique of Anthropology, 35(4), 430-480. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X15598384

Stafford, Charles (2015). Being careful what you wish for: the case of happiness in China. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 5(3), 25-43. https://doi.org/10.14318/hau5.3.003

Stafford, Charles (2012). Misfortune and what can be done about it: a Taiwanese case study. Social Analysis, 56(2), 90-102. https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2012.560207

Stafford, Charles (2011). Book review: What Confucius would make of it: governing educational desire: culture, politics and schooling in China By Andrew Kipnis and drink water, but remember the source: moral discourse in a Chinese village By Ellen Oxfeld. Anthropology of This Century, 2,

Stafford, Charles (2011). Living with the economists. Anthropology of This Century, (1),

Stafford, Charles (2010). Some qualitative mathematics in China. Anthropological Theory, 10(1-2), 81-86. https://doi.org/10.1177/1463499610365373

Stafford, Charles (2009). Numbers and the natural history of imagining the self in Taiwan and China. Ethnos, 74(1), 110-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141840902751238

Stafford, Charles (2008). Linguistic and cultural variables in the psychology of numeracy. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 14(s1), 128-141. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2008.00497.x

Stafford, Charles (2004). Introduction: Learning and economic agency in China and Taiwan. Taiwan Journal of Anthropology, 2(1), 1-10.

Stafford, Charles (2004). Two stories of learning and economic agency in Yunnan. Taiwan Journal of Anthropology, 2(1), 171-194.

Stafford, Charles (2003). Language and numerical learning in rural China and Taiwan. Terrain, 40, 65-80.

Book

Stafford, Charles (2019). Economic life in the real world: logic, emotion and ethics. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108673426

Stafford, Charles, Judd, Ellen R., Bell, Eona (Eds.) (2018). Cooperation in Chinese communities: morality and practice. Bloomsbury Academic.

Stafford, Charles (Ed.) (2013). Ordinary ethics in China. Bloomsbury Academic.

Stafford, Charles, Astuti, Rita, Parry, J. P (Eds.) (2007). Questions of anthropology. Berg (Firm).

Stafford, Charles (2003). Living with separation in China: anthropological accounts. RoutledgeCurzon (Firm).

Stafford, Charles (2000). Separation and reunion in modern China. Cambridge University Press.

Chapter

Kajanus, Anni, Stafford, Charles (2023). Cooperation and punishment. In Laidlaw, J. (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Ethics (pp. 610 - 628). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108591249.024 picture_as_pdf

Stafford, Charles (2018). Kin and non-kin cooperation in China. In Stafford, C., Judd, E. R. & Bell, E. (Eds.), Cooperation in Chinese communities: morality and practice . Bloomsbury Academic. picture_as_pdf

Stafford, Charles (2013). Introduction: ordinary ethics in China today. In Stafford, C. (Ed.), Ordinary Ethics in China Today . Bloomsbury Academic.

Stafford, Charles (2013). Some good and bad people in the countryside. In Stafford, C. (Ed.), Ordinary Ethics in China . Bloomsbury Academic.

Stafford, Charles (2010). The punishment of ethical behaviour. In Lambek, M. (Ed.), Ordinary Ethics: Anthropology, Language, and Action (pp. 187-206). Fordham University Press.

Stafford, Charles (2008). Actually existing Chinese matriarchy. In Brandtstädter, S. & Santos, G. D. (Eds.), Chinese Kinship: Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives (pp. 137-153). Routledge.

Stafford, Charles (2007). What is going to happen next? In Astuti, R., Parry, J. & Stafford, C. (Eds.), Questions of Anthropology (pp. 55-76). Berg (Firm).

Stafford, Charles (2007). What is interesting about Chinese religion. In Sarro, R. & Berliner, D. (Eds.), Learning Religion: Anthropological Approaches (pp. 177-190). Berghahn Books.

Stafford, Charles (2006). Deception, corruption and the Chinese ritual economy. In Latham, K., Thompson, S. & Klein, J. (Eds.), Consuming China: Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary China (pp. 42-55). Routledge.

Stafford, Charles (2000). Chinese patriliny and the cycles of Yang and Laiwang. In Carsten, J. (Ed.), Cultures of Relatedness: New Approaches to the Study of Kinship (pp. 35-54). Cambridge University Press.

Stafford, Charles (1999). Separation, reunion and the Chinese attachment to place. In Internal and International Migration: Chinese Perspectives . Curzon Press.

Online resource

Stafford, Charles (2013). What are we comparing China with?

Working paper

Stafford, Charles (2014). Deception, corruption and the Chinese ritual economy. (Working papers 3). Asia Research Centre (ARC), The London School of Economics & Political Science.