Angela Zito

Associate Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies
Ph.D. Chicago 1989.

Director of the RELIGIOUS STUDIES PROGRAM 
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Co-director of the Center for Religion and Media
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Research interests include religion and media, Chinese religions and cultural history, embodiment, gender, and ritual, the relationship of anthropology and history.

Publications
"Can television mediate religious experience? The theology of Joan of Arcadia" in Religion, Beyond the Concept. Edited by Hent DeVries (Fordaham University Press, 2007).

"Secularizing the pain of footbinding: Missionary and medical stagings of the universal body." Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 75.1 (March 2007).

"Things Chinese" and "This is not a façade" in Making Things Public, edited by Bruno Latour and Peter Wiebel. (Catalogue for exhibit in the ZKM Center for Art and Media of Karlsruhe, Germany, 2005)

"Bound to be represented: theorizing/fetishizing footbinding" in Embodied Modernities: refiguring body politics in China . ed. By Fran Martin and Larissa Heinrich (University of Hawaii Press, 2006).

"Purchasing Parents in 17th c. China". (Zai shiqi shiji Zhongguo mai fumu). In Ming Qing qingyu [Sentiments and desires in Ming-Qing China] Academi Sinica, Taiwan, 2004.

Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacrifice as Text/performance in 18th C. China. University of Chicago Press. 1997.

Body, Subject and Power in China, co-edited with Tani Barlow. University of Chicago Press. 1994.