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Elizabeth Dugu
Elizabeth Dugu is a PhD candidate at Concordia Unversity. She is a member of the Tujia minority in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands. Elizabeth's current research examines how Daoist movements, indigenous practices, and interethnic exchanges have shaped the religious and social identity of the Tujia people in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands.
Her work addresses a gap in current scholarship by exploring the interaction between Daoism and indigenous Tujia beliefs. It reveals how Daoism is organically localized and integrated into Tujia ancestral traditions, and how Daoism, Buddhism, and indigenous practices coexist and evolve within a pluralistic environment.
Her research aims to provide data on disappearing traditions and offer insights that help preserve the cultural heritage, as well as provide original resources for scholars of Chinese religions, borderland studies, and interethnic exchance and cultural fusion in contemporary China.
