1 Born January 29, 1981 August. 2016 French national

Aurore DUMONT (吴红)
Born January 29, 1981
French national
[email protected]
August. 2016
CURRENT POSITION
Postdoctoral fellow, Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Affiliated to Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités (GSRL) (UMR 8582 CNRS/EPHE), France
CURRENT PROJECT
“ Linking Deities with Political Power: Variations of “ritual practices” among the
Tungus in Northeastern China from the early 20thcentury to the present”, The Historical
Anthropology of Chinese Society project (Supervisor: Prof. David Faure), Centre for China Studies,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Tungusic, Mongolian and Chinese cultural areas (Inner Mongolia, Northeastern China), Mongol
and Tungus “ethnic minorities” of China (Evenki, Hezhe, Oroqen).
Historical anthropology, nomadism, ritual practices.
EDUCATION
Dec. 2014
2015
2008
2007
2007
2005-06
2005
2003-04
2003
2002
Ph.D. (Doctorat) in Social Anthropology, É cole pratique des hautes études
(EPHE), Paris, France.
Title: Commodity Exchanges, Relational Networks and Contemporary Nomadism among the
Evenki of China (Inner Mongolia). Under the supervision of Prof. John Lagerwey
Undergraduate University Diploma in Mongolian Language and Culture,
Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO), Paris, France.
B.A. (Licence) in Anthropology, University of Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France.
M.A. (Master II) in “Religious, Philological and Historical Studies,” Asian
Studies, EPHE. Under the supervision of Prof. Roberte Hamayon.
Undergraduate University Diploma in Russian Language and Culture,
INALCO.
Chinese Language study, Capital Normal University, Beijing (China).
Master’s degree (Maîtrise) in Chinese Language and Culture, INALCO.
Chinese Language study, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin (China).
B.A. (Licence) in Chinese Language and Culture, INALCO.
University Diploma in Chinese Language and Culture, INALCO.
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PUBLICATIONS
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
[in press]
“Le ‘patrimoine culturel du renne’ : pratiques touristiques et trajectoires nomades
chez les É venk de Chine (Mongolie-Intérieure),” Autrepart. Revue de sciences sociales
au Sud, 80.
[in press] “Declining Evenki Identities: ‘Playing with Loyalty’ in Modern and Contemporary
China,” History and Anthropology (Special editors: Caroline Humphrey and Richard
Fraser).
Book chapters
2015
2013
“The Many Faces of Nomadism among the Reindeer Ewenki of Inner Mongolia:
Uses of Land, Mobility and Exchange Networks,” in Kolås, Ashild, Xie, Yuanyuan
(eds.), The Ewenki of Aoluguya: Reclaiming the Forest, Oxford, Berghahn Books, p. 7797.
“L’écotourisme chez les É venks du renne : de nouvelles relations entre nomades
et sédentaires en Chine,” in Stépanoff, Charles, Ferret, Carole, Lacaze, Gaëlle,
Thorez, Julien (eds.), Nomadismes d’Asie centrale et septentrionale. Sociétés, mobilités et
environnement, Paris, Armand Colin, p. 273-275.
Edited volume
[in preparation] (with A. Lavrillier and D. Brandišauskas), Human-Environment Relationships in
Siberia and Northeast China: Skills, Rituals, Mobility and Politics among the Tungus peoples,
special issue, É tudes mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines.
Book Reviews
2015
2013
2010
2009
(with Alexandra Lavrillier) Tatiana Bulgakova, Nanai Shamanic Culture in Indigenous
Discourse, Fürstenberg/Havel: Kulturstiftung Sibirien, 2013, É tudes mongoles et
sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines, 46.
Shao Dan, Remote Homeland, Recovered Borderland. Manchus, Manchoukuo, and
Manchuria, 1907-1985, Honolulu, University of Hawai’i Press, 2011, É tudes chinoises,
32 (1), p. 198-202.
Gladys Chicharro, Le fardeau des petits empereurs. Une génération d’enfants uniques en
Chine, Nanterre, Société d’ethnologie, 2010, É tudes chinoises, 29, p. 424-428.
Aurélie Névot, Comme le sel, je suis le cours de l’eau. Le chamanisme à écriture des Yi du
Yunnan, Nanterre, Société d’ethnologie, 2008, É tudes chinoises, 28, p. 334-337.
Ph.D. Thesis summary
2015
“Trade exchanges, relation networks and contemporary nomadism among the
Evenki of China (Inner Mongolia),” in É tudes mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et
tibétaines, 46.
Translation
[In press]
Guo Shuyun, “Shamanic Masks Types of Ethnic Minorities in Northern China,”
(Chinese original: 中国北方少数民族萨满面具类型刍 议) in Guo, Shuyun,
Studies in Shamanism of Northern Peoples of China, Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó,
Bibliotheca Shamanistica, vol. 16.
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[In press]
Guo Shuyun, “Transmission of Nisan Shaman,” (Chinese original: 尼山萨满” 的
传承) in Guo, Shuyun, Studies in Shamanism of Northern Peoples of China, Budapest,
Akadémiai Kiadó, Bibliotheca Shamanistica, vol. 16.
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
International conferences
2016
2015
2015
2013
2012
2012
2011
2010
2009
-“Market and Non-Market Trade in Animal Products among the Evenki of
Hulunbuir,” Association for Asian Studies conference, Asia in Motion: Horizons of
Hope, Kyoto, Japan.
-“Summer Tourism in Aoluguya: Reindeer Herders’ Mobile and Economic
Strategies,” The Third International Conference on Tungus Languages and Culture, Hailar,
PRC.
-With Alexandra Lavrillier and Semen Gabyshev, “When Chinese and Russian
Evenki Meet: Border Reindeer Herders’ Cross-Views,” Human-Environment
Relations: Memories, Narratives and Practices in Siberia and China,” Vilnius University,
Lithuania.
-“Oboo Worship and Naadam among the Solon and the Khamnigan Evenkis: From
Collective Rituals to National Sports Festivals,” Human-Environment Relations: Skills,
Knowledge, Emotions and Politics in Siberia and China (Evenk and Even peoples),
University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France.
-“Pratiques rituelles et festivités chez les Mongols et les Toungouses de MongolieIntérieure,” Tradizioni e migrazioni culturali, Fondazione Collegio San Carlo, Modena,
Italy.
-“Reconstructing Places and Shaping Identities. Local festivities and Ritual
Practices of Tungusic and Mongolian Groups in the Cultural and Touristic
Development of the Hulunbuir Area (Inner Mongolia ),” New European Research on
Contemporary China - European Junior China Scholars Conference, Beijing, PRC.
-“The Ewenki of Aoluguya: Reclaiming the Forest,” Oslo International Peace Research
Institute (PRIO), Genhe, Inner Mongolia, PRC.
-“Some Reflexions on Ethnic Tourism among the Reindeer Evenki of Inner
Mongolia,” 5th International Sinology Forum: « China Exposta, Imposta, Proposta », Porto,
Portugal.
-“From E.J. Lindgren’s Expeditions to Today’s Aoluguya Ethnic Village: A Study
of Eight Decades of Change and Adaptations among the Reindeer Evenki of
Inner Mongolia,” (in chinese) The 16th Congress of the International Union of
Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Kunming, PRC.
Seminars, workshops and lectures
2016
2016
2016
“Oboo Rituals and Their Transformation in Inner Mongolia from the Early 20th
Century to the Present,” Ethnicity, Local Society and Religious Life from an Historical
Anthropological Perspective Worshop, Jishou University, Jishou, PRC.
“Fieldwork among the Hezhe: Dealing with “Invisible” Data and Constructed
Discourse”, Historical Anthropology of Researching Twentieth Century China: Workshop on
Research Methodology, Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong
Kong, HK.
-“Ethnic Tourism and the Recreation of “Reindeer Evenki Culture” in Inner
Mongolia,” Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The
University of Hong Kong, HK.
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2015
2015
2015
2014
2014
2010
2009
-“Introduction to the Anthropology of Northeastern China and its Borders.
Nomadic Societies in Transition,” Perspectives on Chinese Studies course by Kristof
Van den Troost, Centre for China Studies, CUHK, HK.
-“Linking Deities with Political Power: Variations of “ritual practices” among the
Tungus in Northeastern China from the early 20th Century to the Present,”
20th Century through Historical Anthropology workshop, Centre for China Studies,
CUHK, HK.
-“Une mobilité pastorale en transition. Le cas des É venk éleveurs de renne
(Mongolie-Intérieure, RPC),” Research seminar of Charles Stépanoff, Religions de
l’Asie septentrionale et de l’Arctique, É cole pratique des hautes études, Paris.
-“From Collective Celebrations to Touristic Festivals: the Case of the Evenki of
Inner Mongolia,” Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot, PRC.
-(With Alexandra Lavrillier) “Les Evenk éleveurs de rennes de Chine et de Russie :
comparaisons et regards croisés,” Workshop: “Terrains mobiles, terrains changeants :
méthodes d’étude du nomadisme aujourd’hui,” GDRI “Nomadisme, sociétés et
environnement en Asie centrale et septentrionale,” Paris, France.
-“Du tourisme ethnique aux pratiques éco-culturelles chez les É venks éleveurs de
rennes : l’émergence de l’écotourisme dans le nord-est de la Mongolie-Intérieure,”
Journée d’étude sur les recompositions du rapport urbain-rural dans les mobilités de loisirs en
Chine, University of Paris 8, France.
-“Les multiples facettes du nomadisme chez les É venks éleveurs de rennes de
Mongolie-Intérieure: réseaux d’échanges et mobilité autour de l’élevage
domestique et de la chasse,” Researh seminar of the French Center for Mongolian and
Siberian Studies, EPHE, Paris, France.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (The Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies):
Spring 2016
CBS2S02 Preserving Cultural Heritage for Ethnic Minorities in Contemporary China’s
service learning project (sup. Prof. Yu Shuo): “Fieldwork practice in
anthropology,” Fieldwork conducted with students among the Evenki in Inner
Mongolia (19th-30th May 2016).
GRANTS AND FIELDWORK
Jul.-Oct. 13 PRES héSam “Next Program” PhD Dissertation Fellowship: Asian Dynamics.
Exchanges, Networks, Mobility.
2010-11
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange PhD
Dissertation Fellowship.
2003-2016
28 months of fieldwork among the Oroqen, the Evenki (Reindeer herders,
Khamnigan, Solon), the Hezhe and the Buryat in Heilongjiang and Inner
Mongolia provinces (China) funded by:
The French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC)-2007-2008
The French School of Asian Studies (EFEO)-2008-2009
The Louis Dumont Grant for research in social anthropology-2010
The East Asian Civilizations Research Centre (CRCAO)- 2011, 2012
The International Research group (GDRI): “Nomadism, Societies and Environment in Central
and Northern Asia” -2011, 2013, 2014
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LANGUAGES SKILLS
French: Native speaker
English: Fluent
Mandarin Chinese: Fluent
Russian: Working knowledge
Mongolian: Beginner
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND COLLECTIVE ACTIVITIES
Since 2014
Treasurer of the Association of Mongolian and Siberian Studies (SEMS),
Paris, France.
2014-2015
Secretary of the French Association of Chinese Studies (AFEC).
2013
Committee member of the international conference Human-environment
relations: skills, knowledge, emotions and politics in Siberia and China (Evenk and Even
peoples), Paris, France.
2010-2014
Part-time Assistant Librarian, French Center for Mongolian and Siberian
Studies (CEMS), EPHE, Paris, France.
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1-10 Ap. 2011 Committee Assistant, 7 sino-french seminar, Institute of Advanced Studies of
National Defense (IHEDN), Paris, France.
Nov. 2009
Research Analyst, reedition of Jean-Pierre Dieny’s book Les dix-neuf poèmes anciens
(Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2010), EPHE, Paris.
2009-10
2006-2008
Archivist, the French Federation for Trade and Distribution (FECD), Paris,
France.
French language teacher for Chinese public, L.C.C., Paris, France.
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