Biography

Martin A. Mills is a social anthropologist at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and Co-Director of the Scottish Centre for Himalayan Research. Specialising in the study of Tibetan societies and religions, his research interests also include the comparative study of religious polities and the cognitive psychology of religion. He is author of Identity, Ritual and State in Tibetan Buddhism (RoutledgeCurzon Press) and a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth.