Masquerades in the Himalayas : the virtues of laughter An original and beautifully illustrated book by Pascale Dollfus and Gisèle Krauskopff is out: With its lively skeletons and walking dead, ancient bawdy characters and...
Ramirez, Philippe. People of the margins: Across ethnic boundaries in North-East India. Guwahati: Spectrum, 2014. spectrumpublications.ghy@gmail.com, 16€, 20$, 15£, 680 INR. North-East India’s cultural landscape might be considered as both more complex and more...
Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies of the University of Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences (Institute for Social Anthropology and Phonogrammarchiv), Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) Submission deadline for abstracts: 31st...
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...
The workshop titled ‘Performing Identity: Ethnicity and Ethno-nationalism in the South-east Asian Borderland Region of North-east India’ was held 15-17 Dec. 2011 in Göttingen, Germany. It was hosted by the Department of Social and...
Workshop: Performing Identity. Ethnicity and Ethno-nationalism in the South-east Asian Borderland Region of North-east India Georg-August-University Göttingen, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, in co-operation with the Centre for Modern Indian Studies and the...
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...
Ce carnet de recherche, animé par des membres du Centre d’Etudes Himalayennes (CNRS), présente l’actualité de la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales sur une vaste aire centrée sur l’Himalaya et englobant l’aire de...
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