Erik Mueggler is an American anthropologist, and Professor at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

Life

He attended

Deep Springs College Deep Springs College (known simply as Deep Springs or DS) is a private, selective two-year college in Deep Springs, California. With the number of undergraduates restricted to 26, the college is one of the smallest institutions of higher educat ...

and graduated from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

with a B.A. in

socio-cultural anthropology Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans. It is in contrast to social anthropology, which perceives cultural variation as a subset of a posited anthropological constant. The portm ...

, and

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...

with a Ph.D. in anthropology

Awards

* 2002 MacArthur Fellows Program * Center for the Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences Fellowship * British Academy Fellowship

Works

"Spectral Chains: Remembering the Great Leap Forward Famine in a Yi Community"
''Re-envisioning the Chinese revolution: the politics and poetics of collective memories in reform China'', Editors Ching Kwan Lee, Guobin Yang, Stanford University Press, 2007, *"Dancing Fools: Politics of Culture and Place in a 'Traditional Nationality Festival.' ''Modern China'' 28(1). 2002.
''The Age of Wild Ghosts. Memory, Violence, and Place in Southwest China''
Berkeley: ''University of California Press''. 2001, *"Spectral Subversions: Rival Tactics of Time and Agency in China." ''Comparative Studies in Society and History'' 41(3): 458-481. 1999. *"The Poetics of Grief and the Price of Hemp in Southwest China." ''Journal of Asian Studies'' 57(4): 979-1008. 1998.

References

The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet (University of California Press, 2011)

External links

*"Other Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging" (review), ''Anthropological Quarterly'' - Volume 75, Number 1, Winter 2002, pp. 221–224
"Book Reviews"
''Anthropologica'', 2003
Interview
with Mueggler on "New Books in East Asian Studies" {{DEFAULTSORT:Mueggler, Erik American anthropologists Cornell University alumni Johns Hopkins University alumni University of Michigan faculty MacArthur Fellows Deep Springs College alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Living people East Asian studies scholars