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Emily Ng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work centers on the intersections of madness, subjectivity, religion, and cosmopolitics, exploring how historical wounds reverberate across generations. Ng is particularly interested in the psychic life as a site for rethinking politics and symptoms approached at multiple scales. Her ethnographic research spans urban and rural China, complemented by her clinical training as a therapist. Ng’s book, 'Time Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, Ghost Mao', awarded the Boyer Prize in Contributions to Psychoanalytic Anthropology, delves into the complexities of madness through psychiatric and cosmological lenses, addressing themes of personhood, generational impasse, and crises of sovereignty. Drawing from her research in hospitals, temples, and homes of spirit mediums, the book offers a distinct vision of post-Mao China, challenging dominant narratives around secularization and revival, and investigates the sensory experiences within unseen religious communities in the region.
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania • Philadelphia, PA
Teaching and conducting research in Medical Anthropology and related fields.
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