Himalayan journeys conference 2022
The Centre for Himalayan Studies is pleased to launch a Call for Papers for the conference “Himalayan Journeys: Circulations and Transformations” which is to be held on 22-24 June 2022. At this time, we...
The Centre for Himalayan Studies is pleased to launch a Call for Papers for the conference “Himalayan Journeys: Circulations and Transformations” which is to be held on 22-24 June 2022. At this time, we...
The European Bulletin of Himalayan Research (EBHR), founded in 1991, is currently hosted at CNRS’s Centre for Himalayan Studies in France for the 2019-2023 term. The thirtieth anniversary of the journal will be celebrated...
The Power of Wealth: Economy and Social Status in Pre-Modern Tibetan Communities, edited by Lucia Galli and Kalzang Norbu Gurung In this special issue of the Revue d’Études Tibétaines, no. 57 (January 2021) investigate...
Mobilité, territoire et pouvoirs en Himalaya : pour Philippe Sagant sous la direction de Gisèle Krauskopff À la fin des années 1950, la recherche sur les régions himalayennes connaît un tournant majeur : les enquêtes...
The spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has deeply affected our lives and given rise to numerous uncertainties and anxieties. This new crisis, along with others such as the ecological crisis and climate change,...
In two previous posts, I introduced some considerations about the use of topology as a method in anthropology. The first of these presented conceptions of the body in relation to tattooing and the second...
In a previous post I introduced some considerations about the use of topology as a method in anthropology, and briefly presented a first case study about conceptions of the body in the tattooing process...
As objects of anthropological inquiry, a body, a house, and a territory each pose a similar set of questions in relation to notions of interiority/exteriority; identity/alterity; limit or boundary; and containment. The body, the...
China officially numbers fifty-five “minority nationalities” (shaoshu minzu 少数民族)—an expression often inappropriately translated as “national minorities” and wrongly regarded as “ethnic groups”. One of these is the “Yi nationality” (Yizu 彝族), ranked first among...
When carefully considered, the motto of “let’s be happy” seems rather appropriate to the current Nepali situation. Political failure, disillusionment with politics, power cuts, a shortage of so many basic necessities, an economic crisis,...
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...
In his study of the rituals of Newar Buddhism, although he privileges others categories for his analysis, David Gellner points out that “[t]he first and most important distinction for Newar Buddhists is that between...
The phrase “mass monasticism” coined by Melvyn Goldstein1 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...
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...
The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier, by Benno Weiner. Cornell University Press, 2020. In The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier, Benno Weiner provides an in-depth study of a Tibetan region during the...
The editors of the European Bulletin of Himalayan Research (EBHR) are pleased to introduce a new feature that will be published in the journal on a regular basis: we are currently considering including abstracts...
Masters of psalmody (bimo) : scriptural shamanism in southwestern China, by Aurélie Névot. Leiden: Brill, 2019. Collection “Religion in Chinese societies” 15. In Masters of Psalmody (bimo ) Aurélie Névot analyses the religious, political...
Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands, edited by Stéphane Gros. Amsterdam University Press, 2019. Collection “Asian Borderlands”. This new edited volume explores the intertwined questions of place-making, identity, and socio-political transformations...
Pastures of Change: Contemporary Adaptations and Transformations among Nomadic Pastoralists of Eastern Tibet, Gillian Tan. Springer International Publishing, 2018 (Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation). Tan’s latest book can be read along...
The members of CEH sadly announce the death of Corneille Jest, founding member of our research unit. Corneille Jest passed away on 23 January 2019 in the Paris area at the age of 88....
Tone in Yongning Na: Lexical tones and morphotonology, by Alexis Michaud. Language Science Press, 2017. (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 13) My main motivation for writing about Michaud’s study on the Na language doesn’t have...
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