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...
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 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...
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...
Territories, Communities, and Exchanges in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands 18-20 February, 2016 This international conference is an outcome of the ERC-funded project “Territories, Communities, an Exchanges in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands”, hosted by the Centre for...
“Territories, Communities, and Exchanges in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands” February 18-20, 2016, Paris – France Call for papers To submit your proposal please register on the conference website and submit your proposal online: http://kham.sciencesconf.org Deadline...
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...
For some ten years, my work has focused on border politics and identity, ethnicity and state-society relations in China, giving rise to intensive fieldwork in the Gyalrong region of Sichuan province. These issues are...
Property in Tibetan Societies: Ownership, Transfer, Confiscation 15 and 16 December 2014 Paris The French-German (ANR/DFG) research programme “Social History of Tibetan Societies, 17th to 20th Centuries” announces a 2-day conference at...
Brief Report on the Workshop on Minority Languages of the Chinese Tibetosphere by Gerald Roche (post-doctoral fellow at the Hugo Valentin Centre, and convenor of the workshop) On the 3rd and 4th...
Please note the following international workshop, to be held at the Hugo Valentin Centre of Uppsala University, on November 3-4, 2014, and organized by Gerald Roche (currently post-doctoral fellow at the Hugo Valentin Centre):...
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