About the author:
　　Bamo Ayi is a Nuosu from Yuexi County of Liangshan, received her Ph. D. in Tibetan-Burmese Linguistics with a distinction in Yi Writing System and Religious Scriptures from Central University for Nationalities in 1991; Post Ph. D. in Anthropology of University of Washington in Seattle (1996-1997); Visiting Scholar Harvard-Yenching Institute at Harvard University in Cambridge (2000-2001). She serves as Deputy Director General of International Department at State Ethnic Affairs Commission and Professor of Religion Studies in Department of Philosophy and Religion of Central University for Nationalities in Beijing. She conducted fieldwork in Yi and Naxi aeras of southwest China, as well as in northwest Japan and west America. She is the author of The Study of Yi Ancestral Worship: An Investigation on Nousu's Ritual and Interpretation of the Ritual Books”(1994) and “The Yi World of Religion: Field Reports on the Religious Life of the Yi of Lianshan”(2004), and her Chinese translation from Stevan Harrell’s works titled“Field Studies of Ethnic Identity: Yi Communities of Southwest China”(2000) has come to Chinese readers' view. Her many essays, field reports, and papers appeared in a wide spectrum of journals in and out China.