Dr. Keiko Miura

Keiko Miura is Research Fellow and member of the Cultural Property research group at Gottingen University (see http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/86656.html) She investigates different discourses on property, ownership, heritage and belonging in the context of Angkor as a world heritage site in Cambodia.
Keiko Miura received a Ph. D. in social anthropology from the University of London in 2004. Her thesis is entitled ‘Contested Heritage: People of Angkor’. From 1992 to 1998 she had worked at the Culture Unit of UNESCO office in Cambodia, with a 6-month interval conducting research on local villages of Angkor with a Japanese Government Team for Safeguarding Angkor (JSA). She is currently a part-time lecturer at the School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University in Tokyo, teaching courses such as Culture and Society of Southeast Asia, and Culture and Tourism, as well as organising fieldwork training for MA students in Angkor. Her research interests include heritage issues, cultures and societies of South-East Asia, in particular, changing environment and the livelihood strategies of people. Since 2004 she has conducted research on wet-rice agriculture and related rituals in Bali, in addition to the follow-up studies on the issues of conservation, tourism development and local communities in Angkor.