Publications
ETHNOGRAPHY AND ANTHROPOLOGY OF CHINA
Books
2009
Chinese Kinship. Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives. London & New York: Routledge, Pp. 256. (co-edited with Susanne Brandtstädter)
Articles and book chapters
In press
"Technologies of Ethical Imagination." In Charles Stafford (ed.) Ordinary ethics in China today. London: Berg (LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology Series).
2011
"Rethinking the Green Revolution in South China. Technological materialities and human-environment relations." East Asian Science, Technology, and Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal 5 (4): 477-502. (Special issue: 'Rice science, rice technology and rice societies', Guest Editors: Harro Maat and Dominic Glover)
2011
"Fertility decline in rural China. A Comparative Analysis." Journal of Family History 36 (1): 15-36 [with S. Harrell, Wang Yuesheng, Han Hua, Zhou Yingying]
2010
"On 'same-year siblings' in rural South China." In A. Desai & E. Killick (eds.) The ways of friendship. Anthropological perspectives, pp. 20-45. Oxford: Berghahn Books.
2010"L'agriculture traditionnelle chinoise est-elle verte et jusqu'où?" In Thierry Gaudin & Elie Faroult (eds.) L'empreinte de la technique. Ethnotechnologie prospective (Cerisy 2-9 Juillet 2009), pp. 117-39. Paris: L'Harmattan.
2009
"Rice Intimacies: Reflections on the ‘House’ in Upland Sulawesi and South China." Archiv für Völkerkunde, 57-58: 37-64 (co-authored with Aurora Donzelli) [Special issue 'Constructing the Future - Remembering the Past. Houses and Architecture in Southeast Asia', Guest Editor: Gabriele Weichart]
2009
“Introduction: Chinese kinship metamorphoses.” In Brandtstädter, S. and Santos, G. D. (eds.) Chinese Kinship. Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives, pp. 1-26. London & New York: Routledge. (co-authored with Susanne Brandtstädter)
2009
“The ‘stove-family’ and the process of kinship in rural South China.” In Brandtstädter, S. and Santos, G. D. (eds.) Chinese Kinship. Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives, pp. 112-36. London & New York: Routledge.
2008
"On ‘same-year siblings’ in rural South China". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 14 (3): 535-553.
2006
"Zhongguo fuxi zongzu yu yinger de renzhi (Chinese patriliny and infant cognition)". Zhongguo Yanjiu (China Study), 3: 1-19. (Special Issue on Cognitive Anthropology).
2006
"The Anthropology of Chinese Kinship. A Critical Overview." European Journal of East Asian Studies, 5 (2): 275-333.
2006
"Os ‘camponeses’ e o ‘imperador’. Reflexões etnográficas sobre orizicultura intensiva e estratificação social no Sudeste da China." Etnográfica, 10 (1): 41-70.
Book reviews and review essays
2012
Review of Substitute Parents: Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting in Human Socities. Edited by Gillian Bentley & Ruth Mace. Pp. 336. (Berghahn, Oxford, 2009). Journal of Biosocial Science 44 (2): 255-56.
2007
Review of Private Life under Socialism. Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999. By Yan Yunxiang. Pp. 289. (Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2003). Análise Social 183: 626-634.
2004
Review of Chinese Sociologics. An Anthropological Account of Alienation and Social Reprodcution. By P. Steven Sangren. Pp. 328. (LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology, Vol. 72, Athlone Press, London 2000). Etnográfica 8 (2): 397-402.
WORLD ANTHROPOLOGIES / HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Books
2005
A Escola de Antropologia de Coimbra, 1885-1950. Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, Pp. 232.
Articles
2012
"The birth of physical anthropology in Late Imperial Portugal". Current Anthropology 53 S5 (Special Issue: Wenner-Gren Symposium 'The Biological Anthropology of Modern Human Populations. World Histories, National Styles, and International Networks', Guest Editors: Ricardo V. Santos & Susan Lindee)