Publications

Author/Title Research Type Related Fields
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. Publications, Articles Children, Culture, Ethnography, Field Research Methods, Research Methods
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.  Publications, Articles Children, East Asian, Epistemology, Ethnography, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods, Research Methods, Science and Technology, Sociocultural Anthropology
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 Publications, Articles East Asian, Ethnography, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Political Economy
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  Publications, Articles Children, Ethnography, Research Methods
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 Publications, Articles African, Children, Ethnography, Evolution
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 Publications, Articles Cultural Anthropology, East Asian, Ethnography, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Sociocultural Anthropology, Women
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 Publications, Articles Children, Computational Methods, Demography, East Asian, Ethnography, Quantitative Methods, Research Methods, Statistics
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/. Publications, Articles Ethnography, Global Health, Health Disparities, HIV, Indigenous, Medical Anthropology, Social Justice
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. Publications, Articles Cultural Anthropology, Culture, Epistemology, Ethnography, Narrative Analysis, Politics of Representation, Popular Culture, Storytelling
Xu, Jing. 2024. "Unruly" Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village. Cambridge University Press.  Publications, Books Children, Cultural Anthropology, Demography, East Asian, Education, Ethnography, Field Research Methods, Quantitative Methods, Research Methods, Sociocultural Anthropology
Xu, Jing. 2023. Re-discovering "the Child": A Re-interpretation of Arthur & Margery Wolf's Classic Fieldnotes. Sociological Review of China, no.9: 65-88. In Chinese. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Children, Computational Methods, East Asian, Ethnography, Field Research Methods, History, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods
House, J. Shelby. Review of Animal Enthusiasms: Beyond Cage and Leash in Rural Pakistan by Muhammad Kavesh. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 45, no. 2 (March 2022): 394-395, https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2022.2040814.  Publications Animal Studies, Environment, Ethnography, Sociocultural Anthropology, South Asian
Raphaëlle Rabanes et Djaël Chevry, 2022. « Le mas comme espace de transformation. Regards croisés sur la dimension réparative du carnaval en Guadeloupe », Esclavages & Post-esclavages [Online], 7, December 2022. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/slaveries/7383 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/slaveries.7383 Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Cultural Anthropology, Diaspora Studies, Ethnography, Performance Studies, Postcolonial, Qualitative Methods, Social Change, Social Justice, Sociocultural Anthropology, Space/Place
Grant, Jenna. 2022. Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Publications, Books Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Medical Anthropology, Postcolonial, Science and Technology, Southeast Asian, Urban Studies, Visual Culture
Xu, Jing. 2020. The Mischievous, the Naughty and the Violent in a Taiwanese Village: Peer Aggression Narratives in Arthur P. Wolf's "Child Interview" (1959). Cross-Currents: East Asia Culture and History Review (33). https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-33/xu Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Children, Cultural Anthropology, East Asian, Ethnography, Field Research Methods, History, Research Methods, Sociocultural Anthropology
Xu, Jing. 2020. Tattling (Gaozhuang) with Chinese Characteristics: Norm Sensitivity, Moral Anxiety, and the “Genuine Child”. Ethos 48(1): 29-49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/etho.12262 Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Children, Culture, East Asian, Education, Ethnography, History, Sociocultural Anthropology
Dimas Iqbal Romadhon (2020) A critical comparative ethnographic study of courtesy stigma in two leprosy-impacted communities in Indonesia, Global Public Health, DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2020.1718734 Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Ethnography, Medical Anthropology, Narrative Analysis, Public Health, Qualitative Methods, Southeast Asian
Rabanes, Raphaëlle. 2019. “Lateral Solidarity." Somatosphere. Disability from the South: Towards a Lexicon Series. Friedner M., Zoani T. Eds. http://somatosphere.net/2019/lateral-solidarity.html/ Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Disability, Ethnography, Global Health, Health Disparities, Medical Anthropology, Postcolonial, Qualitative Methods, Race and Ethnicity, Social Justice, Sociocultural Anthropology
M.van Eijk. 2019 Studying Health Care Institutions: Using Paperwork as Ethnographic Research Tools. Ethnography: 1-20. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Ethnography, Health, Medical Anthropology
Xu, Jing. 2019. Learning "Merit" in a Chinese Preschool: Bringing the Anthropological Perspective to Understanding Moral Development. American Anthropologist. doi: 10.1111/aman.13269 Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Children, Culture, East Asian, Education, Ethnography, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods, Research Methods, Sociocultural Anthropology
"Violent Paternalism: On the Banality of Uyghur Unfreedom," The Asia-Pacific Journal. December 15, 2018,
Volume 16, Issue 24,| Number 4: 1-15. https://apjjf.org/2018/24/Byler.html 		Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters East Asian, Ethnography, Islamic Studies, Socialism and Post-Socialism, Violence and Trauma
Xu, Jing. 2018.Review on Educating the Chinese Individual: Life in a Rural Boarding School by Mette Halskov Hansen. University of Washington Press. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 24: 646-647. Publications, Reviews Children, East Asian, Education, Ethnography, Social Change, Sociocultural Anthropology
2018. Electoral Ripples: The Social Life of Lies and Mistrust in an Indian Village Election. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 8 (1/2): 129-143 Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Ethnography, Government, Social Change, South Asian
Citrin, D, A Mahat, H Bista. NGOs, Partnerships, and Public-Private Discontent in Nepal’s Health Care Sector. 2018. Medicine Anthropology Theory 5(2).  Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Ethnography, Global Health, Medical Anthropology, Public Health
Sasha Su-Ling Welland. Experimental Beijing: Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. Publications, Books Art, Cities, Cultural Anthropology, East Asian, Ethnography, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Museum Studies/Museology, Socialism and Post-Socialism, Visual Culture