Project position

Seinor researcher

Reading group

Material culture and cultural anthropology

Research fields

identity, ethnic minorities, borderland(s), Silk Road, Inner Asia

Bio

Mag. Dr. Wallenböck Ute’s research focus is on the Tibeto-Mongol interface at the Sino-Tibetan borderlands but also on cultural transfer in Inner Asia based on the observation that social and cultural practices, ideas and traditions can move across boundaries, from one society to another.

Publications

Wallenböck, Ute. 2019. “The Cultural and Educational Dimension
of the ‘New Silk Road’: The Re-invention of Mongolness at the
Sino-Tibetan Borderlands.” Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies,
11, pp. 31–59. https://doi.org/10.2478/vjeas-2019-0002