Mark Turin is a linguistic anthropologist. He studied archaeology and anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and holds a PhD in descriptive linguistics from Leiden University where he was affiliated to the Himalayan Languages Project. He is currently a Research Associate at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, where he directs both the World Oral Literature Project and the Digital Himalaya Project and lectures on ethnolinguistics, visual anthropology, digital archives and fieldwork methodology. He has also held research appointments at Cornell and Leipzig universities, as well as at the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology in Sikkim, India. From 2007 to 2008, he served as Chief of Translation and Interpretation at the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN).
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