Dr Martin A. Mills
Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Anthropology of Tibet & the Himalaya;
Religion, politics and the state.
Director of the Scottish Centre for Himalayan Research.
Secretary of the Scottish Parliament's Cross-Party Group on Tibet.
Photo: Sani Monastery in the kingdom of Zanskar, Western Himalayas (2005).
Martin Mills is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) and Director of the Scottish Centre for Himalayan Research. He specialises in the comparative organisation and structure of governance in religious, state and medical institutions. He has previously lectured and researched at the universities of Edinburgh, St.Andrews and Sussex.
Dr. Mills' principal research focus is the anthropological study of Tibetan and Himalayan communities, in particular their religious and governmental institutions. Author of Identity, Ritual and State in Tibetan Buddhism (Routledge 2003), he has carried out fieldwork in Tibet, Ladakh, China, Northern India and Scotland over the last thirty years. At Aberdeen, he supervises in the ethnography of Tibetan societies, the anthropology of religion and ritual, and comparative political systems.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and member of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth, as well as member of the International Association for Tibetan Studies and the International Association of Ladakh Studies.
Dr. Mills is Secretary of the Cross-Party Group on Tibet within the Scottish Parliament, Chairman of the China Studies Group at Aberdeen.
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