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En-Chieh Chao

Professor and Chair En-Chieh Chao

En-Chieh Chao, Professor and Chair

Personal Information

Research Interests: Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion, Cross-Cultural Comparison of Sex and Gender, Islam, Science, Technology and Society (STS), Southeast Asia
E-mail：zolachao2@g-mail.nsysu.edu.tw
Extension：5673
Office：R6-5025
Personal Website：https://sites.google.com/view/zolachao/

Education

Ph.D. in Anthropology, Boston University (2013)

B.A. in Anthropology, National Taiwan University (2006)

Current Position

  • Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology, National Sun Yat-Sen University

Experience

  • Member of Judges' Committee for The Geertz Prize 2023, 2022 (USA)
  • Director of Taiwan Science Technology Studies Association 2020-2024
  • Director of Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology 2023-
  • Secretary-General of Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology 2021-2023
  • Director of Taiwan Association of Visual Ethnography 2021-2023
  • Associate Professor of Sociology at National Sun Yat-Sen University 2018-2022 (Taiwan)
  • Assistant Professor of Sociology at National Sun Yat-Sen University 2014-2018 (Taiwan)
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, Academia Sinica 2012-2014

Research Statement

I am a cultural anthropologist whose research interests lie in the multiple entanglements of religion, gender, race, and modernity. My regional specialization is Southeast Asia, followed broadly by the Islamic world. In the summer of 2017, I published my cross-religious ethnography, Entangled Pieties: Muslim-Christian Relations and Gendered Socialities in Java, Indonesia, which details the cross-religious daily lives and especially gendered social relations within a multi-religious mountain community in Java, Indonesia.

In recent years, I have been engaged in STS (Science, Technology, and Society) research concerning Islam and laboratories, with a particular focus on the Malay Peninsula in Indonesia, while occasionally extending to Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the Americas. Prompted by my engagement with the new research topic of the scientificization of halal authentication, I began to notice the important role of multi-species in human knowledge. This has led me to touch upon physiology, molecular biology, pharmacy, and other halal-related laboratory practices, viewing these scientific discourses and developments from an anthropological perspective.

Journal Articles

  • Yuen, C.-W., & En-Chieh Chao. (2023). Bioacoustics as forms of resistance: Growing mycelium instruments and mushroom communication in a high-tech city-state. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 17(1), 105-110.
  • En-Chieh Chao. (2022). Islam and Veterinary Science: Rethinking Animal Suffering Through Islamic Animal Ethics and the Evolving Definition of Halal Slaughter. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 9, 785585.
  • Lin, Z., & En-Chieh Chao. (2021). Weeds are Herbs: Botanic Arts of Foraging, Classifying, and Cooking. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 15(3), 391-394.
  • 趙恩潔（2020）。懂牠的痛苦：當實驗室是棲息地，而物種是生物文化回應。《科技、醫療與社會》，31，15-66。
  • 郭育安、趙恩潔（2020）。懂牠的聲音：馬來西亞人造燕屋的聲景技術與「自然文化」的非二元空間。《科技、醫療與社會》，31，115-156。
  • En-Chieh Chao. (2020). The Animal Body Multiple: Science, Religion, and The Invention Of Halal Stunning. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 55(2), 286-305.
  • 趙恩潔（2020）。蛻變的豬與死屍：印尼清真驗證科學化與本體論轉向再反思。《考古人類學刊》，92，31-70。
  • 趙恩潔（2020）。跨越社會身體：瘟疫蔓延時的跨文化溝通。《科技、醫療與社會》，30，293-303。
  • 趙恩潔（2018）。「又美麗又虔敬」：中爪哇戴頭巾者社群的美／德能動性。《臺灣社會學刊》，64，1-47。
  • 趙恩潔（2018）。清真的電擊：關於動物福利與伊斯蘭屠宰的一段道德技術史。《科技、醫療與社會》，26，7-54。
  • En-Chieh Chao. (2015). The-Truth-About-Islam.Com: Ordinary Theories of Racism and Cyber Islamophobia. Critical Sociology, 41(1), 57-75.
  • En-Chieh Chao. (2014). Not Fanatical: The Evolution of Sociable Piety and the Dialogic Subject in Multi-Religious Indonesia. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 15(3), 242-264.
  • En-Chieh Chao. (2011). Blessed Fetishism: Language Ideology and Embodied Worship among Indonesian Pentecostals in Java. Culture and Religion, 12(4), 373-399.

Books

  • En-Chieh Chao. (2017). Entangled Pieties: Muslim-Christian relations and gendered sociality in Java, Indonesia. Palgrave Macmillan.

Book Chapters

  • 趙恩潔（2023）。〈印尼爪哇中產階級穆斯林女性的「靈性遷徙」〉。收錄於黃應貴、林開世（主編），《性別、主體性、與重構生命世界》（頁189–236）。新北：群學。
  • 趙恩潔（2021）。〈異溫層史觀：雌雄同體與離婚派對的啟示〉。收錄於趙恩潔、林浩立（主編），《異溫層迷航記：芭樂人類學2》（頁65-76）。台北：左岸文化。
  • 趙恩潔（2021）。〈擁抱你的口音：西語嘲仿、阮月嬌與新台灣〉。收錄於趙恩潔、林浩立（主編），《異溫層迷航記：芭樂人類學2》（頁427-436）。台北：左岸文化。
  • En-Chieh Chao. (2021). Science, Politics, and Islam: The Other Origin Story of Halal Authentication in Indonesia. In A. U. Yakin & L.-L. Christians (Eds.), Rethinking Halal: Genealogy, Current Trends, and New Interpretations (pp. 128-150). Brill.
  • 趙恩潔（2020）。〈如果在台灣，一個穆斯林：文化作為意義之流〉。收錄於趙恩潔（主編），《南方的社會，學：她者亦是共同體》（頁149-176）。台北：左岸文化。
  • 趙恩潔（2018）。〈穆斯林同性愛慾極簡史：從鄂圖曼模式反思當代同性戀常規與同志國族主義〉。收錄於陳美華、王秀雲、黃于玲（主編），《欲望性公民：同性親密公民權讀本》（頁251-276）。台北：巨流。
  • En-Chieh Chao. (2018). Counting Souls: Numbers and Mega-worship in the Global Christian Network of Indonesia. In T. Chong (Ed.), Pentecostal Megachurches in Southeast Asia: Negotiating Class, Consumption and the Nation (pp. 47-70). ISEAS.
  • En-Chieh Chao. (2014). In Each Other’s Shadow: Building Pentecostal Churches in Muslim Java. In B. Platzdasch & J. Saravanamuttu (Eds.), Religious Diversity in Muslim-Majority States in Southeast Asia (pp. 133-153). ISEAS.
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