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Charles Stafford is a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics (LSE) with significant research interests in learning cognition, child development, emotion, identity, morality, ethics, and economic life. His major fieldwork project in the late 1980s involved a Taiwanese fishing community, where he examined child development through the lens of nationalist schooling and Taiwanese popular religion, culminating in the monograph 'Roads to Chinese Childhood' (Cambridge, 1995). In the early 1990s, he extended his research to mainland China, investigating kinship, religion, and Chinese historical consciousness. His fascination with the rituals surrounding 'separation' and 'reunion' in rural communities led to the publication of 'Separation and Reunion in Modern China' (Cambridge, 2000). His work intersects moral and ethical life with economic psychology and cooperation, demonstrated in his edited books 'Ordinary Ethics in China' (Bloomsbury, 2013) and 'Cooperation in Chinese Communities' (Bloomsbury, 2018). His latest monograph, 'Economic Life in the Real World: Logic, Emotion, Ethics' (Cambridge, 2020), integrates insights from anthropology, psychology, and economics. He has conducted fieldwork periods in Oklahoma, studying kin and non-kin cooperation patterns.
Department of Economics