Erik Mueggler

Erik Mueggler is an anthropologist and historian based at University of Michigan, who hasworked with Indigenous peoples in Southwest China for many years. The Age of Wild Ghosts was his first book; others include The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet (University of California Press, 2011) and Songs for Dead Parents: Corpse, Text and World in Southwest China (University of Chicago Press, 2017). He is currently finishing a book titled The Book of Cunning and Treachery: Writing, Sovereignty, and Bondage in a Qing Indigenous Domain. His work has received many honors and awards, including a Macarthur Foundation Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.