Fiskesjö, N Magnus G
Assistant Professor
research
research and scholarship focus
- Ethnic Relations
- Ideas of Civilization
- Chinese Civilizing Ideals Casting Minorities or Barbarians in Supportive Roles
- Notions of Sovereignty, Citizenship, and State Organization
- Ethnic Minorities and Majority-Minority Relations in the Hunan-Guizhou, and neighboring Southeast Asian Nations
- Archaeology of East and Southeast Asia
- History of the Coming into Being of Early Kingdoms and States
international geographic focus
affiliations
other Cornell affiliations
background
professional background
- Public Museum Director, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm, 2000-2005
publications
selected publications (listing in progress)
- Books:
- 2004 China Before China: Johan Gunnar Andersson, Ding Wenjiang, and the Discovery of China's Prehistory. Bilingual in English and Chinese; with dr. Chen Xingcan. Stockholm: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities monographs no. 15, 2004.
- 2003 The Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon, The Death of Teddy's Bear, and the Sovereign Exception of Guantanamo. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003. (A Turkish-language short version was published by the Istanbul-based BIANet, as "Bag'is,lama ve Mutlak I'ktidarin Gizi" [The President's Pardon and the Hidden Rituals of Sovereign Power], http://www.bianet.org/2003/04/18/18308.htm).
- Articles:
- 2007 "The autonomy of naming: Kinship, power and ethnonymy in the Wa lands of the Southeast Asia-China frontiers." Paper presented at the "International Conference on Naming in Asia: Local Identities and Global Change," Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 23-24 February 2006. Forthcoming in Charles Macdonald and Zheng Yangwen, eds. Asian Names: History, Culture and Identity.
- 2007 "Health and medicine in a 'peripheral situation': Wa views on disease and healing." Paper for the 2006 Burma Studies Conference panel on "Health and History: Looking for Healing in Contemporary Burma/Myanmar," Singapore, 13-15 July 2006. Forthcoming in Monique Skidmore, ed. Medicine in Myanmar (Volume Two: The Present).
- 2006 "Rescuing the Empire: Chinese Nation-Building in the Twentieth Century." European Journal of East Asian Studies 5.2 (2006), 15-44 (Special issue on "Nation-building and ethnic minorities in East and Southeast Asia").
- 2006 "Chinese Collections Outside China: Problems and Hopes." (Inaugural lecture for the International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology, ICCHA, University College London, March 2005). Public Archaeology [London] 5.2 (2006), 111-26.
- 2005 "A Foreign Bird in a Golden Cage: Sweden's Asia Collections." Res Publica 65 (2005), 68-80. (In Swedish).
- 2004 "Giorgio Agamben: Philosophy now," and "The Barbarians and the Outlaws: A Critique of Homo sacer," in Res Publica (Stockholm), special Agamben issue guest edited by M. Fiskesjö, vol. 62/63 (2004), 4-12, 107-25. (In Swedish).
- 2003 "Who Will Take Responsibility For World Cultural Heritage? The Views of a Western Museum Director," Zhongguo wenwu bao (Beijing), February 14, 2003, front page. (In Chinese)
- 2003 "Lost Civilizations, Lost Choices." Dushu (Beijing) 4 (2003), 72-75. (In Chinese).
- 2002 "The Barbarian Borderland and the Chinese Imagination -- Travellers in Wa Country," Inner Asia 4.1 (2002), 81-99.
- 2001 "Rising From Blood-Stained Fields: Royal Hunting and State Formation in Shang China," Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 73 (2001), 48-192.
- 1999 "On the 'Raw' and the 'Cooked' Barbarians of Imperial China," Inner Asia 1.2 (1999), 139-68.
