Tsypylma Darieva

Tsypylma Darieva (Russian: Цыпылма Дариева; born 1967)^[1] is an anthropologist and ethnographer. Her research is focused on anthropology of migration, transnational diaspora, homecoming, collective memory, public places, post-socialist urbanism, cosmopolitan sociability, sacred places, South Caucasus, Europe, and Central Asia.^[2]

Darieva was born in Ulan-Ude, the capital of Buryatia.^[3] She graduated from the Leningrad State University in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in Oriental Studies and from the Free University Berlin with a master's degree in social anthropology in 1996. She received her doctorate from the Humboldt University Berlin in 2002.^[2]