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Marion Wettstein studied anthropology, musical anthropology and media studies at the University of Zürich. From 2002 to 2008 she was assistant and scientific staff of Prof. Dr. Michael Oppitz at the Ethnographic Museum of Zürich University (Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich). Her teachings included lectures and seminars in ethnography, ethnographic drawing, visual anthropology, material culture, fashion theory, mythology, and anthropology of religion, and she contributed to several exhibitions of the museum. From 2007 to 2010 She was member of a four year research project "Material Culture, Oral Traditions and Identity among the Naga of Northeast India" funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF/FSN). In 2011 she completed her PhD thesis about "Naga Textiles: Design, Technique, Meaning and Agency of a Local Craft Tradition in Northeast India" (Supervisor Michael Oppitz). With a general interest in Asia, her regional specialization is the extended Himalayas, particularly Northeast India and Eastern Nepal. In her current research project “Ritual and Mimesis: Identity based on Dance“ she is working about the Sakela, a ritual lay dance of the Rai in Eastern Nepal. From October 2011 onwards, the research will be part of the project “Ritual, Space, Mimesis: Performative Traditions and Ethnic Identity among the Rai of eastern Nepal”, lead by Prof. Dr. Martin Gaenszle at the Institute of South Asian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies (ISTB) of the University of Vienna. It will be conducted alongside a second sub-project “Ritual and Space: Identity based on Ritual Landscape” by the anthropologist Alban von Stockhausen, and funded by FWF (Fonds für Wissenschaftliche Forschung), Austria. Her latest publication "Naga Identities: Changing local cultures in Northeast India" (Snoeck 2008) was co-edited with Michael Oppitz, Alban von Stockhausen and Thomas Kaiser and accompanied a large exhibition about the Naga in the Ethnographic Museum of Zürich University (Naga - Schmuck und Asche: Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich, 07.06.08-06.09.09) for which she was co-curator. Other recent publications include: “Origin and Migration Myths in the Rhetoric of Naga Independence and Collective Identity” (in print) and “’Cultural extravagance’ and the search for identity in presentday Nagaland”, In: R. Kunz & V. Joshi (Hrsg.), Naga: A Forgotten Mountain Region Rediscovered. 2008. Basel: Merian. Contact Please use e-mail or the German phone number for contact (long-term field-visit to Nepal): marion.wettstein//at//gmail.com Local numbers in Nepal:
Postal address in Germany Marion von Stockhausen-Wettstein |