Workshop: Ethnicity and the State in Nepal
mit Dr. David Gellner
Teilprojekt B 13
Achtung: geänderte Uhrzeit! Der Veranstaltungsbeginn musste auf 17.00 Uhr verschoben werden.
Donnerstag, 16.06.2005, 17.00-20.00 Uhr (c.t.)
Raum: U5 - 217
Über den Referenten:
David Gellner is University Lecturer in the Anthropology of South Asia at the Institute of Social and Cultural
Anthropology, and Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Oxford.
His doctoral research (1982-4)
was on the traditional, Vajrayana Buddhism of the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley,
Nepal. He has carried out fieldwork in the Kathmandu Valley on many subsequent
occasions, broadening his interests to include politics and ethnicity, healers,
mediums, and popular approaches to misfortune, and religious change, in particular
the history and effects of the newly introduced Theravada Buddhist movement.
He has also done three months' exploratory fieldwork on Buddhist priests in
Japan. For eight years he taught at Brunel University, west London, the first
British university to introduce a Master's course on medical anthropology. From
2002-5 David Gellner is on leave, holding a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship
for research into the social history and practice of activism in Nepal.
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