Katie Dimmery has been a fellow at Stanford’s Center for East Asian Studies for the last year. She is an ethnographer of art and aesthetics in social context with training in a southwestern Chinese tradition of ceremonial texts, now associated with the Naxi ethnicity. Her book project will investigate how an aesthetic orientation to books and other objects of material culture, including the land, becomes an affordance for religious experience, and how such aesthetic practices are being transmitted in China’s southwest today. Listen to Dimmery’s podcast, “Into the Valley: Indigenous Artistic Rituals in Southwest China.”
