Herrou Adeline
Ethnology
Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (LESC)
France
Biography
Adeline Herrou is an ethnologist and sinologist. She has approached the study of contemporary Chinese society through research on Daoist monasticism. Her doctoral thesis in ethnology, entitled “La vie entre soi. Les moines taoïstes aujourd’hui en Chine”, under the direction of Brigitte Baptandier, was based on a long field study in a small Daoist monastery in south Shaanxi, central China. It examines the particulars of community life in the Quanzhen order in the 1990s, in the midst of a religious revival that followed the long ban on all religions under Mao (defended in 2001 at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense).
Research Interest
Religious anthropology, ethnology of monasticism, social organisation and kinship, anthropology of texts
Publications
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2011, Portraits croisés de He, Ran et Zhou, moines au temple Baiyunguan de Pékin, in J. Massard-Vincent, S. Camelin and C. Jungen (eds), Portraits. Esquisses anthropographiques (Paris, Petra): 59-84.
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2012, Daoist monasticism at the turn of the twenty-first century. An ethnography of a Quanzhen community in Shaanxi province, in D. A. Palmer and Liu Xun (eds), Daoism the twentieth century. Between eternity and modernity (Berkeley and London, University of California Press): 82-120.
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2013, A world of their own: Daoist monks and their community in contemporary China (Dunedin FL, Three Pines Press).
