Animal Sacrifice, Religion and Law in South Asia, edited By Daniela Berti & Anthony Good Routledge (Religion in Contemporary Asia Series), 2024. This book presents original research on the controversies surrounding animal sacrifice in...
Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia, edited by Jelle J.P. Wouters and Michael T. Heneise Routledge, 2023. The editors, Jelle J.P. Wouters (Senior Lecturer at the Royal Thimphu College, Bhutan) and Michael T. Heneise...
Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces: Histories of Networking and Border Crossing, edited by Gunnel Cederlöf and Willem van Schendel Amsterdam University Press (Asian Borderlands series), 2022. Well-known historians Gunnel Cederlöf (Professor of History...
Berghahnn books, 2022. In this book, Heidi Fjeld, a Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of Oslo, presents an-depth study of polyandry, kinship and marriage in the form of a fieldwork-based monograph of...
A special issue titled “Storying multi-species relationships, commoning and the state in the Himalayas” edited by Erik de Maaker and Dan Smyer Yü has been published. This is the EBHR issue 58 and it...
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 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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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