John Shepherd | East Asia Center

John Shepherd

John Shepherd

Professor, Department of Anthropology (Emeritus)

jrs4c@virginia.edu

Teaching Interests: Historical anthropology, Political economy, Social organization, Marriage and domestic groups
Research Interests: Demographic anthropology, Chinese culture and society, Taiwanese aboriginal culture and society
Regional Specialization: Taiwan, China

Publications

Footbinding as Fashion cover

Footbinding as Fashion: Ethnicity, Labor and Status in Traditional China

University of Washington Press (2018)

<台灣邊疆的治理與政治經濟> cover

<台灣邊疆的治理與政治經濟> Taiwan bianjiang de zhili yuzhengzhi jingji 1600-1800

National Taiwan University Press (2016)

Death at the Opposite Ends of the Eurasian Continent cover

Death at the Opposite Ends of the Eurasian Continent: Mortality Trends in Taiwan and the Netherlands 1850-1945

Amsterdam University Press (2012)

Marriage and Mandatory Abortion Among the 17th-Century Siraya cover

Marriage and Mandatory Abortion Among the 17th-Century Siraya

American Anthropological Association (1995)

Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier cover

Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier, 1600-1800

Stanford University Press (1993)