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(Born in 1987) Interdisciplinar by nature (or for necessity), I intertwine traditional ethnographic methodologies with continental philosophy and the application of postcolonial studies on archival material in order to approach museum collections of Asian religious artefacts (initially, from India, and currently, for five years onwards, on East Asia) in Europe and Asia (Taiwan). In particular, I am interested in everything that challenges traditional museum practice: from the sacred power of museum artefacts and how it impacts on visitors in a spiritual way, to vernacular practices of exhibition and cultural memory with religious artefacts (more specifically museums established and managed by Buddhist groups and the exhibitive spaces of Chinese folk temples). Currently, I have been shaping my research on the themes of sacred waste, as well as heritagization with decaying and ruined material, with Taiwan as geographical area of interest. My first English monograph, resulted from my doctoral dissertation, has been published by Berghahn Books in 2021.
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