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...
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...
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...
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...
East Asian Topologies of Power An Interdisciplinary Cross-Currents Symposium The recently published special issue “Frontier Tibet: Trade and Boundaries of Authority in Kham” (Stéphane Gros ed.) will be presented and discussed at the occasion...
Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, no. 19 (E-Journal) Frontier Tibet: Trade and Boundaries of Authority in Kham This special issue of Cross-Currents (open-access) focuses on the region of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands that...
The Centre for Himalayan Studies and the Southeast Asia Centre units of the French CNRS (Villejuif / Paris) are pursuing their collaboration in the form of a series of day-long thematic workshops in the...
Territories, Communities, and Exchanges in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands 18-20 February, 2016 We are delighted to share the program of the conference that will bring together twenty scholars during a 3-day event to be held...
Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie, vol. 23 (2014) Des mondes en devenir. Interethnicité et production de la différence en Chine du Sud-Ouest / Worlds in the making: Interethnicity and the processes of generating difference in Southwestern China...
Hille, Marie-Paule. « Le Xidaotang, une existence collective à l’épreuve du politique. Ethnographie historique et anthropologique d’une communauté musulmane chinoise (Gansu, 1857-2014) » [The Xidaotang, endurance and transformations of a collective existence. Historical and...
From the editors of Asian Highlands Perspectives (G. Roche and C.K. Stuart): The editors of Asian Highlands Perspectives are pleased to announce the publication of our latest volume (#36), titled Mapping the Monguor. Nearly ten years in...
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