Dan Smyer Yü
Yü, D.
| PersonType | Category:Professors Category:Authors of English Works |
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| MainNamePhon | Dan Smyer Yü |
| bio | Dan Smyer Yü is Kuige Professor of Ethnology, School of Ethnology and Sociology and the National Centre for Borderlands Ethnic Studies in Southwest China at Yunnan University. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California at Davis in 2006. Prior to his current faculty appointment, he was the Founding Director of the Center for Trans-Himalayan Studies at Yunnan Minzu University, a Senior Researcher/Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, a core member of the Transregional Research Network (CETREN) at University of Göttingen, and a New Millennium Scholar at Minzu University of China, Beijing. He is the author of The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China: Charisma, Money, Enlightenment (Routledge 2011) and Mindscaping the Landscape of Tibet: Place, Memorability, Eco-aesthetics (De Gruyter 2015), and the co-editor of Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China (Routledge 2014) and Trans-Himalayan Borderlands: Livelihoods, Territorialities, Modernities (Amsterdam University Press 2017). His research interests are religion and ecology, environmental humanities, transboundary state effects, climate change and heritage preservation, Buddhism and peacebuilding, and comparative studies of Eurasian secularisms. His externally funded projects are “Trans-Himalayan Environmental Humanities” (ICIMOD), “India-China Corridor Project” (the Swedish Research Council), “Cultural and Ecological Diversity of the Trans-Himalayas in the Context of China’s Belt and Road Initiative” (National Social Sciences Foundation of China), and “Sustainable Lives in Scarred Landscapes: Heritage, Environment, and Violence in the China-Myanmar Jade Trade” (The British Academy Sustainable Development Program). (Source Accessed Aug 10, 2020) |
| languageprimary | Chinese |
| affiliation | School of Ethnology and SociologyYunnan University Kunming, China |
| phduniversity | University of California, Davis |
| education | PhD in Anthropology (sociocultural), University of California, Davis, (1996)
MA in Anthropology (sociocultural), California State University Hayward, (2000) |
| cv | https://yunnan.academia.edu/DanSmyerY%C3%BC/CurriculumVitae |
| IsInGyatsa | No |
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