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2/2 What I found in the UK, was a general model of being helpful to everyone, but not at a high cost to oneself; whereas in China, there was less emphasis on general helpfulness, but highly costly helping was expected in particular relationships. Open access.

Ethos | AAA Sociocultural Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library Helping is one of the key features of human sociality. The ethnographic record is pervaded by accounts of people doing things with and for each other from an early age. Developmental psychology has s...

1/2 Children don't need to be taught to be helpful. Quite the opposite, adults tend to teach them NOT to help. Based on my research on children's cooperation in China and the UK, I show how children move from general helpfulness to culturally shaped patterns of helping.

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2/2 What I found in the UK, was a general model of being helpful to everyone, but not at a high cost to oneself; whereas in China, there was less emphasis on general helpfulness, but highly costly helping was expected in particular relationships. Open access.

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Ketään ei varmaan ärsytä mikään näin joulun alla, mutta aina voi hetken miettiä tämän epämiellyttävän tunteen olemusta ja hyötyjä. Kerroin Irritation-ryhmän tutkimuksesta Utelias mieli podcastissa.

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Let’s be prepared to do some mediation work. Perhaps it's our turn, based in Euro-American institutions, to take some of it on.

Negative view: silo effect is likely. The conversations diverge and we don’t read each other.

Hopeful view: some of this linguistic insularity can generate genuine plurality of thought and have an impact on anthropology more broadly.

Meantime in the mainland, anthro is in high demand in public debates, and the publication field in Chinese has expanded. It is in the interests (and sometimes required) of mainland colleagues to direct their energies there.

In the future China anthro will be increasingly done in Chinese, by Chinese colleagues. for the past 5 years it’s been very hard to plan long-term fieldwork in China, and because the first fieldwork is so crucially important, our non-Chinese PhD students are not currently specialising in China.

Just spent 3 days in Hong Kong with a great group of Chinese China anthropologists. Some of my main takeaways. 1/6