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JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 8 August - 15 August
2. NEW BOOK> Goddess on the Frontier Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Southwest China by Megan Bryson
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JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 8 August - 15 August
by Franz Metcalf
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 8 August 2016 to 15 August 2016. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Buddhism. See the H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.msu.edu, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Boston College - Two Open-Rank Positions in Race, Religion, and the African Diaspora
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53296
Brandeis University - Florence Levy Kay Postdoctoral Fellowship in Race, Science and Society
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53288
Reed College - Tenure-Track Appointment in Linguistic Anthropology or Sociocultural Anthropology
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53301
ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
University of Washington - Seattle - China Economist Assistant Professor
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53283
EAST ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Loyola Marymount University - Assistant Professor, East Asian History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53280
Princeton University - Open-Rank Professor of Pre-Modern Chinese History (Tang Through Qing)
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53309
Salisbury University - Assistant Professor of History for East Asian History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53304
JAPANESE HISTORY / STUDIES
Harvard University - Tenure-Track Professor in Pre-modern Japanese Humanities
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53279
University of Notre Dame - Assistant Professor in Modern Japanese Literature and Culture
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53310
University of Rochester - Assistant Professor of Japanese (Literature and Culture)
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53295
Yale University - Open-Rank Japanese Literature
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53311
RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND THEOLOGY
Boston College - Two Open-Rank Positions in Race, Religion, and the African Diaspora
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53296
NONE
Princeton University - Professor, Associate or Full; Religion, Ethics and Politics
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53289
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NEW BOOK> Goddess on the Frontier Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Southwest China by Megan Bryson
by Charles DiSimone
Goddess on the Frontier
Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Southwest China
MEGAN BRYSON
Dali is a small region on a high plateau in Southeast Asia. Its main deity, Baijie, has assumed several gendered forms throughout the area's history: Buddhist goddess, the mother of Dali's founder, a widowed martyr, and a village divinity. What accounts for so many different incarnations of a local deity?
Goddess on the Frontier argues that Dali's encounters with forces beyond region and nation have influenced the goddess's transformations. Dali sits at the cultural crossroads of Southeast Asia, India, and Tibet; it has been claimed by different countries but is currently part of Yunnan Province in Southwest China. Megan Bryson incorporates historical-textual studies, art history, and ethnography in her book to argue that Baijie provided a regional identity that enabled Dali to position itself geopolitically and historically. In doing so, Bryson provides a case study of how people craft local identities out of disparate cultural elements and how these local identities transform over time in relation to larger historical changes—including the increasing presence of the Chinese state.
About the author
Megan Bryson is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee.
More info here: http://sup.org/books/title/?id=26844&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Br...
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