Using fieldwork combined with canonical and ritual texts, I focus on Western China religious traditions, notably the Bön traditions of Tibet.
Marc des Jardins
- Associate Professor
- Department of Religions and Cultures
- Tibet
- Bön religion
- cultural studies36
- cultural history54
- Indigenous knowledges25
- Buddhism4
- East Asia5
- Western China
- China-Tibet relations
- Chinese traditional medicine
- Chinese religious minorities
- magic and the occult
- ritual12
- ethnography32
- conflict resolution7
- historiography8
- Chinese popular religions and Daoism
- Himalayan cultures and religions
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Alisi Telengut
research-creation, under-camera animation, post-human critical theory
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Mark K. Watson
urban Indigenous studies, Inuit, Indigenous knowledges
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Naftali Cohn
ancient Jewish texts, Mishnah, ritual
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Bradley J. Nelson
Hispanic literature and culture, social impacts of technology, history of science
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Alison Reiko Loader
history of media arts, feminist media studies, media arts
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Wilson Chacko Jacob
Middle Eastern studies, Indian Ocean World, Islam
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Emanuel Lowi
Inuit, Indigenous studies, contemporary Indigenous politics
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Julie Soleil Archambault
African studies, youth culture, urban/rural studies
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VK Preston
cultural history, performance studies, embodiment
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Katie Young
cultural geography, Irish studies, ethnomusicology
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Tanja Tajmel
STEM education, human rights, artificial intelligence (AI)
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Rachel Berger
South Asia, history of medicine, queer theory
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Nora Jaffary
Latin American studies, Mexico, gender
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Stephen Snow
drama therapy, ethnography, trauma and resilience
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Ronald Rudin
public history, French Canada, oral history
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Leslie Orr
devadasis, gender and sexuality, pre-colonial South Asia