Manduhai Buyandelger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anthropology
Associate Professor
Cambridge, Massachusetts
manduhai@mit.edu
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(617) 324-5510
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Bio/Research
Manduhai Buyandelger received her B.A. and M.A. in Literature and Linguistics from Mongolian National University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University (2004). Prior to joining Anthropology at MIT she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and taught at the ...
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Bio/Research
Manduhai Buyandelger received her B.A. and M.A. in Literature and Linguistics from Mongolian National University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University (2004). Prior to joining Anthropology at MIT she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and taught at the Harvard Anthropology Department. Her book Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Socialism, and the State of Neoliberalism in Mongolia (forthcoming University of Chicago Press) tells a story of the collapse of the socialist state and the responses of marginalized rural nomads to the devastating changes through the revival of their previously suppressed shamanic practices. In her next project "Technologies of Election: Gender, Media, and Neoliberal State Formation in Mongolia ," the transformation of the former socialist state into a neoliberal one by looking at women's participation in parliamentary elections. She is a member of the project "Oral History of Twentieth Century Mongolia" (2007-2012) at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit of the University of Cambridge University in the UK.
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