Anouska Komlosy

Curator

Asian Ethnography

Department: Asia

Telephone: +44 (0)20 7323 8866
Email: akomlosy @ thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

Anouska Komlosy is curator of Asian Ethnography. She completed her Ph.D. in 2002 in Social Anthropology and has a special interest in Southeast Asia and Chinese borderlands.

She has carried out long-term fieldwork in Yunnan Province China with Theravada Buddhist Tai people. She has a particular interest in cross-border cultures and in cultural flow and exchange throughout Southeast Asia. She has taught on anthropology, China studies and inter-cultural relations and her research interests include visual anthropology (especially photography), gender and identity politics as well as museum ethnography.

Current British Museum projects

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Previous British Museum projects

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External fellowships/ honorary positions/ membership of professional bodies

Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Publications

A. Komlosy, 'Feminisation’, recognition and the cosmological in Xishuangbanna, in edited volume of the symposium “Is There a Chinese-style Politics of Recognition? Comparing Minority Politics in Different Chinese Polities”  (eds) Linda Nedilsky and Joseph Tse-Hei Lee. Held at Hong Kong Shue Yuan College (2006) - submitted and under review

A. Komlosy, Creativity and alterity in the dance and music scenes of Yunnan, China: An International Journal  6 (1), (March, 2008)

A. Komlosy, 'Processions and Water Splashing: Expressing local affinity and national identity during Dai New Year in Xishuangbanna', Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 10 (2), (2004)

A. Komlosy, 'Co-operation and conviviality in Daile morality', in Towards Peace in Multi-ethnic Asia. Clarence Dias and M. Abdus Sabur (eds), (Asian Resource Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand, 2003)