Tami Blumenfield

Tami Blumenfield is an anthropologist focused on the dynamics of community change and the ethics of creating and archiving knowledge. An anthropologist of China and documentary film producer with a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Washington, she has spent over two decades researching and conducting fieldwork in ethnically diverse regions of southwest China, particularly areas where Mosuo (Na) and Nuosu (Yi) people live. Supported in Fulbright fellowships, a grant from the Association for Asian Studies China and Inner Asia Council, and funding from the National Science Foundation, she has researched educational practices, cultural heritage politics, and social change. Her book manuscript Screening Moso: Communities of Media in Southwest China, supported by a publication fellowship from the American Association for University Women, discusses a collaboration and participatory media project with the Mosuo Folk Museum. Blumenfield was a founding board member of the Cool Mountain Education Fund, an organization that supported students in Liangshan, China. She is currently Kuige Scholar at Yunnan University and Adjunct Research Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico Anthropology Department.