SFEMT inaugural conference: Tibetan medicine in Mustang

May 16, 2012
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SFEMT inaugural conference: Tibetan medicine in Mustang The French Society of Studies of the Tibetan World (Société Française des Études du Monde Tibétain, SFEMT) would like to invite you to its inaugural conference, on Tuesday, 29 May 2012, from 2 to 4 PM: “Introduction to Tibetan medicine and the renewal of the tradition in Mustang (Nepal)” by Amchi Tenzin, Tibetan doctor...
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Les minorités de Chine à l’exposition universelle de Shanghai

March 20, 2012
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Les minorités de Chine à l’exposition universelle de Shanghai Par le biais de l’exposition universelle organisée à Shanghai en 2010 sur le thème : « Better city, better life » (chengshi rang shenghuo geng mei hao 城市让生活更美好), la Chine a montré comment elle conçoit l’ « universel » en appliquant aux pays étrangers des concepts ancestraux propres à sa culture. Elle appréhende et...
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Money and butter: On participation in optional rituals

March 11, 2012
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Khyung-gön temple during the large Mani ritual, February 2011 (click to enlarge) In his study of the rituals of Newar Buddhism, although he privileges others categories for his analysis, David Gellner points out that “he first and most important distinction for Newar Buddhists is that between obligatory and optional practices”. It has always struck me that this distinction seems much less prominent in Tibetan discourses; however,...
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Trans-ethnic entities

September 19, 2011
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Trans-ethnic entities To my knowledge, literature devoted to North-East India and the Himalayas makes little mention of either trans-ethnic descent groups or trans-ethnic patronymic groups. Hutton and Mills mention people from distinct Naga tribes who consider they belong to the same clan.1 In the Meghalaya-Assam borderland, Morningkeey Phangcho and myself recently collected a series of data...
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Quasi-generalized, mostly temporary, monasticism among boys: An uncommon form of Tibetan “mass monasticism”

October 7, 2011
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Quasi-generalized, mostly temporary, monasticism among boys: An uncommon form of Tibetan “mass monasticism” The phrase “mass monasticism” coined by Melvyn Goldstein is by now commonly used by specialists of Tibetan religion. As recently reformulated by Goldstein, it designates a monastic system characterized by “an emphasis on recruiting and sustaining very large numbers of celibate monks for their entire lives”. Such a monastic system has existed in Tibetan...
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Conference on self-immolations in Tibet

April 30, 2012
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Conference on self-immolations in Tibet Please find below the programme of a two-days international conference on the recent extraordinary sequence (more than thirty occurrences in just over a year) of self-immolations in Tibet. This conference, titled “Tibet is burning. Self-Immolations in Tibet: Ritual or Political Protest?“, will be held at the Collège de France, in Paris, on 14-15 May...
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International Workshop: Religion and the Courts in India and South Asia

April 17, 2012
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International Workshop: Religion and the Courts in India and South Asia The ANR Programme “Just-India” (Justice and Governance in Contemporary India and South Asia – http://www.just-india.net), supported by the Centre for Himalayan Studies, organizes a two day international workshop in Paris on June 18-19, 2012, for debating about how Courts in South Asia deal with religion, in practice. In the case of India, the Constitution...
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“Kham Project” receives support from the European Research Council

April 17, 2012
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“Kham Project” receives support from the European Research Council Stéphane Gros has been awarded a Starting Independent Researcher Grant from the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant) for his project “Territories, Communities and Exchanges in the Sino-Tibetan Kham Borderlands (China),” hosted at the Centre for Himalayan Studies (CNRS). The focus of this research programme is the area of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands situated within...
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Self-immolation as protest in Tibet

April 15, 2012
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Self-immolation as protest in Tibet Special issue of the journal Cultural Anthropology on the self-immolations in Tibet, co-edited by Carole McGranahan and Ralph Litzinger, published on 9 April 2012, http://www.culanth.org/?q=node%2F526 Tibet has no history of self-immolation as sacrifice, religious offering, or political protest. Yet, in the last year alone, roughly thirty-five Tibetans have set themselves on fire. The overwhelming...
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Les nomades du Ladakh – ouvrage et film

March 29, 2012
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Les nomades du Ladakh – ouvrage et film Avant de lire Les Bergers du Fort Noir. Nomades du Ladakh (Himalaya occidental) par Pascale Dollfus publié par la Société d’ethnologie (Nanterre) et annoncé pour juin 2012 (voir ici), une première rencontre avec la communauté nomade de Kharnak qui vit à plus de 4200 mètres d’altitude aux confins du plateau tibétain et, chaque automne...
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Repkong rituals of offering to worldly deities

March 28, 2012
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Repkong rituals of offering to worldly deities The Repkong county, in eastern Amdo (north-east Tibet / Qinghai province), is well known for its cults of place gods, known as luröl (Amdo: ləru ) — among other aspects (see for instance here, here and here). Indeed, for some scholars in Tibetan studies, the name of Repkong may have first been put on...
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Critical Han Studies

March 26, 2012
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Critical Han Studies It is a pleasure to announce the arrival of “Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation and Identity of China’s Majority,” now out on University of California Press (on the GAIA series). The volume was edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, James Leibold, Stéphane Gros, and Eric Vanden Bussche. This volume offers eleven essays that interrogate...
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Digital Himalaya – An Online Archive

March 21, 2012
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Digital Himalaya – An Online Archive The Digital Himalaya Project is a collection, storage and dissemination portal for scholarly content and research findings about the Himalayan region. The project was established in December 2000 in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge with three objectives: 1. to preserve in a digital medium anthropological materials from the Himalayan...
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A Grammar of the Thangmi Language

March 19, 2012
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A Grammar of the Thangmi Language A noteworthy publication: linguist and anthropologist Mark Turin’s impressive 996-page study of the Thangmi language (in 2 volumes) is now out, in Brill’s “Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region” series: Turin, M., 2012, A grammar of the Thangmi language : With an ethnolinguistic introduction to the speakers and their culture, Brill, Leiden; Boston This...
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Les territoires de l’eau en Himalaya

March 16, 2012
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Les territoires de l’eau en Himalaya Dans le cadre de la conférence “L’eau et ses territoires en Himalaya” (Cycle de conférences “La fin des frontières ?”) Auditorium de la BULAC (INALCO, Paris) le 20 mars 2012, 18h30-20h30 Intervention de O. Aubriot (CNRS, CEH) L’eau ne connaît pas les frontières administratives, elle a son propre espace de circulation, s’écoulant le long...
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