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Erik Mueggler
Name: Erik Mueggler
Title(s):
- Associate Professor
Contact Information: 734.763.4026 , mueggler@umich.edu
International Institute Affiliation(s):
- CCS
- CICS
Department Affiliation(s):
- Anthropology
Research/Teaching Specialization: Professor Mueggler completed his doctorate in Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University in 1996 and joined the faculty of the University of Michigan the same year. 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.
