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• Hong Kong Anthropologist

THE HONG KONG ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY
AND THE HONG KONG MUSEUM OF HISTORY
PRESENT

An Anthropological Talk by Jonathan Ross

Chinese Anthropology Then and Now from a Lawyer's Perspective

Friday 12 July 2024, 7:00pm
Hong Kong Museum of History
Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, 100 Chatham Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

This talk focuses on Jonathan's exciting and unique journey as a pioneer in Chinese Anthropology in 1970, his fieldwork in the mid-1970s in the mountains of Taiwan (with slides, including pictures of shamans with skewers through their cheeks), and his transformation into a lawyer in China with a background in Anthropology. He will share observations on what Anthropology was and what it has become, as it is currently practiced in Hong Kong. He will also discuss how having a background in Anthropology is useful for a lawyer. As Anthropology also has stimulated his interest in history and culture in China, and in Hong Kong in particular, he will talk about Sacred Spaces, a platform that arranges visits by local Hongkongers and expats to museums, temples, and cultural sites in Hong Kong.

Jonathan Ross is a lawyer who has lived in Hong Kong for over 30 years. He received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1981 based on his fieldwork in a mountainous Taiwanese village where he lived for 18 months in 1976/7.