Erik Mueggler
Erik Mueggler is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Faculty
Associate of the Center for Chinese Studies. His research has centered on rural China in
the twentieth century, especially on issues of memory, religion, gender, and state power.
He conducts field research in Yunnan Province, largely among minority peoples,
especially Yi. His current research projects include an ethnography of the poetics of grief
in Yi regions and a history of nineteenth and early twentieth century botanical exploration
in the Great Rivers area of Yunnan.
Selected Publications.
In press. 2002. "Dancing Fools: Politics of Culture and Place in a 'Traditional Nationality
Festival.' Modern China 28(1).
2001. The Age of Wild Ghosts: Memory, Violence, and Place in Southwest China.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
1999. "Spectral Subversions: Rival Tactics of Time and Agency in China." Comparative
Studies in Society and History 41(3): 458-481.
1998. "The Poetics of Grief and the Price of Hemp in Southwest China." Journal of Asian
Studies 57(4): 979-1008.
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