Yukti Mukdawijitra is an associate professor of anthropology at Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University, Thailand. He earned doctoral degree in anthropology from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Yukti’s works cover a wide range of topics including anthropological theories and methodologies, politics, ethnicity, folklore, and language. His research sites are both Vietnam and Thailand. He published works in English, Vietnamese and Thai. Examples of his works are Reading Community Culture: Poetics and Politics of Communitarianism Discourse in Thailand (2005), Tai Dam History: A Root of Thailand and Southeast Asian History (2014), Reexamining Thailand’s Political Landscape (co-authored with Apichart Sathiniramai and Niti Pawakapan) (2014), From Romantic Love to Class Struggle: Reading Song Chu Son Sao a Tai Dam Folktale in Vietnam’s Contexts (2018), Posthuman Anthropology (coedited with Chatchon Atchanakitti) (2022).