About Tjalling Halbertsma
Born 1969. Tjalling Halbertsma is a Dutch anthropologist, cultural anthropologist, jurist, writer, university teacher and art historian.
Tjalling Halbertsma (born 1969 in Doorn) is a lawyer and anthropologist from the Netherlands. Since 1996 he is primarily based in Mongolia and China. He has published several books and articles about Asia, and has written travel stories about Mongolia in the South China Morning Post, Asian Art and Trouw.
Between 2000 and 2004, he served as adviser to Prime Minister of Mongolia Nambaryn Enkhbayar. He was also the adviser to his successful election campaign to become President of Mongolia in 2005.
He has published extensively on Nestorianism in Inner Mongolia which resulted in a Ph.D. at the Sinological Institute of Leiden University in 2007.
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Dutch anthropologist
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Tjalling Halbertsma was born on 6 March 1969 in Doorn.
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Tjalling Halbertsma is an anthropologist, cultural anthropologist, jurist, writer, university teacher and art historian.
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Tjalling Halbertsma is Dutch.
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