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...
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...
Sihlé, Nicolas. 2013. Rituels bouddhiques de pouvoir et de violence : La figure du tantriste tibétain (Buddhist Rituals of Power and Violence: The Figure of the Tibetan Tantrist). Bibliothèque de l’École des Hautes Études – Sciences religieuses 152. Turnhout: Brepols. (405 pp.)
Available from Brepols Publishers, Turnhout (Belgium):
http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503544700-1
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...
The interdisciplinary workshop “Himalayan Connections: Disciplines, Geographies, Trajectories”, convened by Andrew Quintman (Religious Studies) and Sara Shneiderman (Anthropology), both Yale faculty members as well as core members of the Yale Himalaya Initiative, was held...
Certaines minorités chinoises disposent d’écritures particulières. Celle des Yi du Yunnan, rituelle et secrète, est l’apanage des Maîtres de la psalmodie, bimo. Ces chamanes disent voyager dans le cosmos et communiquer avec les esprits...
Nicolas Schneider, Le renoncement au féminin. Couvents et nonnes dans le bouddhisme tibétain Philippe RamirezMore Posts
À l’occasion de la parution des deux nouveaux titres de la collection « Haute Asie », la Société d’ethnologie organise dans le cadre des « Entretiens du Comptoir des Presses » une soirée sur le thème « L’Himalaya à...
Special issue of the journal Cultural Anthropology on the self-immolations in Tibet, co-edited by Carole McGranahan and Ralph Litzinger, published on 9 April 2012, http://www.culanth.org/?q=node%2F526 Tibet has no history of self-immolation as sacrifice, religious...
Avant de lire Les Bergers du Fort Noir. Nomades du Ladakh (Himalaya occidental) par Pascale Dollfus publié par la Société d’ethnologie (Nanterre) et annoncé pour juin 2012 (voir ici), une première rencontre avec la...
The Repkong county, in eastern Amdo (north-east Tibet / Qinghai province), is well known for its cults of place gods, known as luröl (Amdo: ləru [klu-rol]1) — among other aspects (see for instance here,...
It is a pleasure to announce the arrival of “Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation and Identity of China’s Majority,” now out on University of California Press (on the GAIA series). The volume was...
The editors of Asian Highlands Perspectives have recently announced the publication of a further three new volumes (see here for a previous set of recently published volumes). Free downloads are available by following the...
The journal HAU is now online with its Inaugural Issue, “The G-Factor of Anthropology: Archaeologies of Kin(g)ship,” guest edited by Giovanni da Col (Cambridge) and Stéphane Gros (CNRS) in collaboration with Justin Shaffner (University of Mary...
HAU, Journal of Ethnographic Theory, is a new, international, peer-reviewed, open-access and copyleft journal which aims to situate ethnography as the prime heuristic of anthropology, and return it to the forefront of conceptual...
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