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David K. Jordan

Anthropology

#780

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#1057

Historical Rank

#405

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David K. Jordan's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, David K. Jordan is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego since 2004. He received his Ph.D. from University of Chicago in 1969. Jordan is known for his various service posts to the university. These positions include the chair for the Department of Anthropology, the Director for the Program of Chinese Studies, Provost of Earl Warren College, Interim Provost of Sixth College, as well as one of the Founders of the UCSD Department of Anthropology with psychological anthropologist Melford Spiro. Jordan currently participates in the university Academic Senate committees including the UCSD Graduate Council and the Council of Provosts.

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David K. Jordan's Published Works

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Gods, ghosts, and ancestors;: The folk religion of a Taiwanese village (1974) (143)
Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors. (1974) (131)
The Flying Phoenix: Aspects of Chinese Sectarianism in Taiwan (1986) (111)
Local Politics in a Rural Chinese Cultural Setting. (1981) (108)
Culture: The anthropological perspective (1980) (37)
The Minor Arts of Daily Life: Popular Culture in Taiwan (2004) (35)
House United, House Divided (1976) (30)
The Jiaw of Shigaang (Taiwan): An Essay in Folk Interpretation (1976) (18)
The Flying Phoenix: Aspects of Chinese Sectarianism in Taiwan. (1987) (17)
Anthropology: Perspective on humanity (1976) (15)
The Recent History of the Celestial Way (1982) (9)
Personality and the Cultural Construction of Society (2010) (9)
Esperanto and Esperantism: Symbols and Motivations in a Movement for Linguistic Equality (1987) (9)
Taiwanese Poe Divination: Statistical Awareness and Religious Belief (1982) (8)
The flying phoenix (1986) (8)
Obstetric implications of neanderthal robusticity and bone density (1994) (7)
The Predominance of English and the Potential Use of Esperanto for Abstracts of Scientific Articles (1981) (6)
Two forms of spirit marriage in rural Taiwan (1971) (6)
Personality and the cultural construction of society : papers in honor of Melford E. Spiro (1992) (4)
Language Choice and Interethnic Relations in Taiwan. (1973) (4)
Languages left behind: Keeping Taiwanese off the World Wide Web (2002) (3)
Esperanto: the international language of humor; or, What’s funny about Esperanto? (1988) (3)
The Minor Arts of Daily Life (2004) (2)
The Ethnographic Enterprise and the Bureaucratization of Ethics: The Problem of Human Subjects Legislation (1981) (2)
Changes in Postwar Taiwan and Their Impact on the Popular Practice of Religion (2019) (2)
9. CASE STUDY III: THE UNITY SECT (I-kuan Tao) (1986) (1)
Family and Kinship in Chinese Society. MAURICE FREEDMAN, ed (1971) (1)
Taiwan's Romanized Script for Mandarin Chinese (1985) (1)
2. THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND! POPULAR RELIGIOUS SECTS IN CHINA AND TAIWAN (1986) (1)
Anti-American Children's Verses from Taiwan (1973) (1)
1. OVERVIEW AND CONCLUSIONS (1986) (1)
The Linguistic Shaping of Thought: A Study in the Impact of Language on Thinking in China and the West. Alfred Bloom. (1982) (1)
Being Colloquial in Esperanto: A Reference Guide for Americans (1992) (1)
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Unities and Diversities in Chinese Religion. Robert P. Weller. (1987) (0)
7. A COMPASSION SOCIETY LOCAL BRANCH HALL: A POLITICAL FIELD (1986) (0)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: K'un Shen: A Taiwan Village. Norma Diamond (1970) (0)
CHAPTER TEN. The Glyphomancy Factor: Observations on Chinese Conversion (1993) (0)
Current Chinese Lexicography (1981) (0)
5. PAPERS OF THE HALL OF THE WONDROUS DHARMA (1986) (0)
Studies in Taiwanese Folktales.Wolfram Eberhard (1971) (0)
Fate of the Lhapa edited by Sarah Sifers (2010) (0)
Social/Cultural Anthropology: History and Magical Power in a Chinese Community. P. Steven Sangren. (1988) (0)
A PERSONAL INTRODUCTION (1986) (0)
General and Theoretical: Ancestors. William H. Newell (1979) (0)
Society For Cultural Anthropology (1988) (0)
4. CASE STUDY I: HISTORY OF THE HALL OF THE WONDROUS DHARMA (1986) (0)
10. WRITINGS OF THE UNITY SECT (1986) (0)
3. BACKGROUND OF THE Chi (1986) (0)
The Anthropology of Taiwanese Society. EMILY MARTIN AHERN and HILL GATES, eds (1983) (0)
Disciplined Bodies in Direct Selling (2016) (0)
6. CASE STUDY II: THE COMPASSION SOCIETY, A BRIEF HISTORY (1986) (0)
Response to Murray and Hong (1988) (0)
8. SOME COMPASSION SOCIETY BELIEVERS (1986) (0)
The Bantu Expansion (2012) (0)

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