Into the Valley: Indigenous Artistic Rituals in Southwest China

As an ethnographer of art, Dr. Katie Dimmery’s work focuses on the ways in which communities and identities are shaped by artistic ritual in the southwest region of China. Her research attends to the practices of indigenous ritualists and how these practices are situated in regional ethnic and social politics. This conversation traces the history of one particular valley in southwest China and how aesthetics and artistic traditions are being enacted today by the people who live there.