Alexander William Macdonald (1923-2018)
A pioneering figure in Himalayan Studies passed away on 4th February 2018. Born in Scotland in 1923, Alexander William Macdonald enlisted in the army at the age of 17 and discovered Asia during the...
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The Centre for Himalayan Studies blog presents current social sciences research on a vast area, spanning the Himalayas, the Tibetan cultural area, Yunnan and Assam.
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Recent posts
- New book: Animal Sacrifice, Religion and Law in South Asia
- New Book: Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia — with a comment
- New Book: Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces, edited by Gunnel Cederlöf and Willem van Schendel
- New book: The Return of Polyandry, by Heidi Fjeld
- European Bulletin of Himalayan Research: New issue
General resources
- Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS)
- Centre de documentation Haudricourt (CNRS)
- Digital Himalaya
- Himalayan Art Resources
- Latse Contemporary Tibetan Cultural Library
- MCADD-PAHAR
- NGMCP (Universität Hamburg)
- PlateauCulture.org
- SEECHAC
- Tibetan & Himalayan Religions Group (THRG)
- Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC)
- Tibetan Himalayan Library (THL)
- Tibetan Oral History and Archive Project (TOHAP)
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- Amdo Research Network
- Brahmaputra Studies
- CIRDIS, Vienna
- Epics in Nepal
- Just-India
- Kingship and Religion in Tibet
- Legal Ideology in Tibet
- Object Lessons from Tibet & the Himalayas
- People's War in Nepal
- Religion and the Literary in Tibet
- TEDAHL (Archaeology and history of Ladakh)
- Tibet Governance Project
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