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Yoonhee
Kang
Yoonhee
Kang received her Ph. D. in anthropology from Yale University
in 2002 with a dissertation entitled “Words of the Ancestors,
Words for Survival: Marginality, Emotion, and the Power of Magical
Words among the Petalangans of Riau, Indonesia.” Her dissertation
research has addressed the issues of language, affect, and the
politics of culture, based on her linguistic and ethnographic
research among the Petalangan people, a remote Eastern Sumatran
community in Indonesia between 1998 and 2000. At the Center for
Folklore and Ethnography, she has worked on her publications that
address the issues of cultural conceptualizations of language,
emotion, and the body, which specific verbal genres presuppose
and mediate in performance. Her most recent publication is “The
Desire to be Desired: Magic Spells, Agency, and the Politics of
Desire among the Petalangan people in Indonesia,” in
Language & Communication 23(2): 153-167, April 2003.
For more information, please visit her website at www.yoonheekang.net.
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