Tibetan Borderlands: Tibetan Studies : Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford, 2003 (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library)

TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 6
INTRODUCTION TIBETAN BORDERLANDS --- P. CHRISTIAAN KLIEGER......Page 8
BARBARIANS AT THE BORDER AND CIVILISING PROJECTS: ANALYSING ETHNIC AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES IN THE TIBETAN CONTEXT --- SARA SHNEIDERMAN......Page 16
RETHINKING TIBETO-BURMAN: LINGUISTIC IDENTITIES AND CLASSIFICATIONS IN THE HIMALAYAN PERIPHERY --- MARK TURIN......Page 42
ARCHIVE AND THE POETICS OF ‘EXOTICA TIBET’ --- DIBYESH ANAND......Page 56
INSISTING ON AGREEMENT: TIBETAN LAW AND ITS DEVELOPMENT IN LADAKH --- FERNANDA PIRIE......Page 74
NAMAS (MNA’ MA) AND NYELUS (NYAL BU): MARRIAGE, FERTILITY, AND ILLEGITIMACY IN TIBETAN SOCIETIES --- GEOFF CHILDS......Page 96
FROM MARGIN TO CENTRE: ‘TIBET’ AS A FEATURE OF GURUNG IDENTITY ERNESTINE MCHUGH......Page 122
RITUAL IN SIKKIM: EXPRESSIONS OF CULTURAL IDENTITY AND CHANGE AMONG THE LHOPOS --- ANNA BALIKCI-DENJONGPA......Page 134
“WE ARE THE LHOPO OF SIKKIM. WE DO NOT HAVE TIBETAN ORIGINS. THE TIBETANS ARE THE REFUGEES”: CHANGES IN THE PERCEPTION OF BHUTIA AND TIBETAN IDENTITIES IN SIKKIM, INDIA --- VIBHA ARORA......Page 164
THE RGYAL RONG NEW YEAR: A CASE HISTORY OF CHANGING IDENTITY --- MARIELLE PRINS......Page 188
THE BALTISTAN MOVEMENT: TIBETAN HISTORY AND IDENTITY IN THE NORTHERN AREAS OF PAKISTAN --- JAN MAGNUSSON......Page 198
CHONE AND THEWU: TERRITORIALITY, LOCAL POWER, AND POLITICAL CONTROL ON THE SOUTHERN GANSU-TIBETAN FRONTIER,1880-1940 --- WIM VAN SPENGEN......Page 216
A TALE OF THE TIBETO-BURMAN ‘PYGMIES’ --- P. CHRISTIAAN KLIEGER......Page 238
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS......Page 262