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Yang Derui
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Nanjing University
Jiangsu
Language: English, Chinese
Religion
Anthropology
Cognition
Culture
Transmission
Daoism
Folk Beliefs
China
Learning
Education
Areas of Focus
- Religious Anthropology
- Cognitive Anthropology
- Cultural Transmission
Work Experience
- 2004 - Present: Nanjing University - Professor
- 2023 - Present: Director of the Institute of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, Nanjing University
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1997 Master's Degree in Social Anthropology: University of Manchester
- 2003 PhD in Anthropology: London School of Economics
Publications
- Inheritance: Explorations in Cognitive and Religious Anthropology, Yang Derui, 2016
- Local Knowledge: Essays in Interpretive Anthropology, Clifford Geertz, Translated by Yang Derui, 2014
- From Crafts to Discursive Knowledge: How Modern Schooling Changes the Learning/Knowledge Style of Daoist Priests in Contemporary China, Yang Derui, 2010
- Revolution of Temporality: The Modern Schooling for Daoist Priests in Contemporary Shanghai, Yang Derui, 2012
- Animal Release: The Dharma Being Staged between Marketplace and Park, Yang Derui, 2015
- 「血湖」研究に関する覚書, Yang Derui, 2016
- The Divine Power of Images: Temple Fairs and Exorcism in Gaochun, Yang Derui, 2018
- Mediation and Intermediation: An Anthropological Approach to the Relationship between the Internet and Transcendence, Yang Derui, 2020
- The Ecological Forest of Daoism in Minqin, Gansu: A Case Study, Yang Derui, 2021
- How Religious Cognitive Science Studies the Afterlife: Observations from an Anthropological Perspective, Yang Derui, 2023
