Yanti Woods

Biography

Since 01/2017 Research associate at the Frobenius Institute Since 10/2013 Ph.D. student at SFB 1070 "Resource Culture" subproject C04 "Religious Resources: Value Added and Value Conversion in South and Central Asia"; Case study Kyrgyzstan 05/2013 Magistra Artium (ethnology / japanology) at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen; Title of the Master Thesis: Competition - Game - Cooperation. School competitions in the Kyrgyz context. 06/2009 Scholarship from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) for the "Go East!" Summer School in Kyrgyzstan (2009) 02-04 / 2009 Field research in Tosor, Kyrgyzstan 08 / 2005-07 / 2009 Fellowship at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, (Japan).

Research Interest

Regional focus: Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia, Japan, Southeast Asia. Thematic Focus: Anthropology of religion; Economic anthropology; Knowledge; Ritual studies; Collective memory; performance