National Museum of Ethnology, Japan
Masashi NARA is Associate Professor at the National Museum of Ethnology. He specializes in Cultural Anthropology. He has conducted fieldwork with Hui people, a Muslim minority in China, focusing on Islamic revival in the post-Mao era, practices related to autonomy, and historical change in religiosity/ethnicity. He recently also conducted fieldwork on the relationship between mobility and religiosity among Chinese Muslims in Taiwan. His publications include “The ‘Islamic Movement’ in Contemporary China: An Ethnography of Hui People Living in Difficulty” (in Japanese, Fukyosha, 2016), and ‘Autonomy in Movement: Informal Islamic Pedagogical Activities among Hui Muslims in China’ (“Déjà Lu” 6: 1-51, in English, 2018) , and “Anthropology of Things and Media” (in Japanese, Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2021, co-edited with Y. FUJINO and S. KONDO). He received his Ph.D. from University of Tsukuba in 2014. Before joining National Museum of Ethnology in April 2019, he worked as associate professor at Hokkaido University. He received ‘the 12th IISR Award’ from the International Institute for the Study of Religion (IISR) (18 February, 2017) and ‘the 12th JASCA Young Scholars Promotion Award’ from the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (JASCA) (May 28, 2017) for his anthropological studies on a Muslim minority in China.
Living Elsewhere: Minority Experiences and Marginalization in Foreign Communities
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
14:00 – 15:45 (GMT+7)
Communities on the Move: Transnational Muslim Interactions and Mobilities in Taiwan
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
14:00 – 15:45 (GMT+7)