Adeline Herrou Author & Editor

Adeline Herrou is a Social Anthropologist, Director of research at the CNRS (Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology, Nanterre, France). Her research on Daoist monks and temples in the south of Shaanxi province, central China, was her introduction to the study of contemporary Chinese society. She is the author of A Word of Their Own. Daoist Monks and Their Community in Contemporary China (2013). From a comparative perspective, she coordinated the book Une journée dans une vie. Une vie dans une journée. Des ascètes et des moines aujourd'hui (2018), and is co-editor of the book Le féminin et le religieux (2022) and of the “My old China: Grasping social change through long-term fieldwork” issue of the journal Ateliers d'Anthropologie (2023).