In Sun Yat-sen University, history, anthropology, sociology, and economics as fields of studies have always been closely connected with one another. Inheriting the academic tradition of their predecessors, faculties of History and Anthropology Departments have been working closely with overseas scholars on a number of joint-projects since the 1980s. Such cooperation allows them to stand at the frontier of the international academic arena, to integrate effectively the methodologies of the two disciplines, and to explore the techniques of conducting fieldwork in local societies. Over the years, a considerable number of outstanding outcomes have been achieved in the studies of ethnicity and regional culture, popular beliefs and religions, and of traditional rural societies.

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