Lecture: Tingshuo Yang April 5, 2005

Tingshuo Yang, professor of ecological anthropology and senior research fellow at the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology at Jishou University in Hunan, China, will give a lecture titled ?Indigenous Ecological Knowledge for Sustainable Development of Forestry: Findings From an Applied Anthropological Project in Highland, China? at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 5 at Carleton College?s Leighton Hall, Room 305. The event is free and open to the public.
Yang will share part of his work from a long-term applied anthropology project he conducted in mountainous southwest China and will introduce findings about indigenous ecological knowledge with regard to forestry in this area. Yang will reference three cases in Guishou province that will illustrate the forestry knowledge and techniques of the Kam, Hmong and Yi peoples in their socio-historical contexts. He also will discuss the implications for sustainable forestry development.

Yang?s principal research interests include human ecology, environmental history and anthropology and political economic aspects of ethnic relations with a geographical focus on southwest China. Due to his ethnic Hmong origins, he is among the leading Chinese anthropologists who can be identified as ?indigenous anthropologists.?

For more information and disability accommodations, call Jill Tollefson in Carleton?s Asian studies department at (507) 646-4232.