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Wood, L. A., C. Sutherland, J. Xu, et al. 2026. “Naturalistic Observations of Children and Adolescents in Diverse Contexts: Methods, Challenges and Recommendations.”
Infant and Child Development
35, no. 3: e70114. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70114.
Xu, Jing* & Jose Hernandez. 2025. Reading Children’s Moral Dramas in Anthropological Fieldnotes: A Human-AI Hybrid Approach. For the Inaugural Issue “Cultures of AI Interdisciplinarity,”
Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society
. 1, e6. doi:10.1017/cfc.2025.10008.
Cho, Mun Young, Yang Zhan*, and Jing Xu. 2025. “ “We Are All Implicated”: An Interview With Korean Anthropologist Mun Young Cho.”
American Anthropologist
1–11. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.70023
Wen, N., D, Amir, J. Clegg, H. Davis, N. Dutra, M. Kline, S. Lew-Levy, T. MacGillivray, P. Gairan, Y. Wang, J. Xu, & B. Rawlings. 2025. Construct Validity in Cross-Cultural, Developmental Research: Challenges and Strategies for Improvement.
Evolutionary Human Sciences
. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2025.3
Hewlett, Barry, Bonnie Hewlett & Jing Xu. 2024. Interview with Bonnie and Barry Hewlett: Encountering children in the field. Hunter Gatherer Research, 8 (1-2). https://doi.org/10.3828/hgr.2024.20
An, Mengzhu, Jing Wang, Jing Xu and Wei Ye (equal authorship). 2024. Finding Wang Tonghui: The Life & After-life of a Pioneer Female Chinese Anthropologist.
Feminist Anthropology
. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fea2.12139
Sui, Z., Wang, Q. & Xu, J. 2024. Modeling children’s moral development in postwar Taiwan through naturalistic observations preserved in historical texts.
Scientific Reports
14, 9140. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-59985-6
Saravia, Paula. 2024. “Health Activism: From Citizenship to Radical Care. ‘Care Struggles: The Role of Indigenous Health Activists in the Fight Against HIV in Chile.’”
Cambridge University Social Anthropology Society (CUSAS)
Lent 2024 edition (February). https://www.cusas.socanth.cam.ac.uk/paula-saravia/.
Xu, Jing & Yang Zhan. 2024. "Can Anthropologists Get Humor? A Collaborative Experiment on Empathetic Knowing at a Time of Predicaments."
American Anthropologist
. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13980.
Xu, Jing. 2024.
"Unruly" Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village
. Cambridge University Press.
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