Yolanda van Ede

After a career as a dancer, choreographer and actress, Yolanda van Ede (1962) studied cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, where she received her M.A. degree with honors, and her Ph.D. on a dissertation entitled House of Birds: a historical ethnography of a Tibetan Buddhist nunnery in Nepal (1999). Since 2000, she is assistant professor in the department of Sociology & Anthropology, particularly on qualitative research methods and the anthropology of the senses, and co-editor of Etnofoor, an international anthropological journal. She has published a number of articles on women and Tibetan Buddhism, ritual and performance, and kinship in the Netherlands.

Currently, she is working on a textbook, The Senses: Key Concepts (to be published in 2008). Sensorial analysis is also at the core of her current research on Japanese flamenco, in Andaluce (Spain) and Tokyo, in reference to gender and sexuality, transnationalism, globalization of music and dance, and to authenticity and passion.

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