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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Battle for Fortune: State-led Development, Personhood and Power among Tibetans in China by Charlene Makley (Professor of Anthropology, Reed College) ©2018 Cornell University Press Anthropologist Charlene Makley is already known for her work...
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...
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...
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