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The Himalayas and beyond
This research blog of the CNRS Centre for Himalayan Studies (Centre d’Etudes Himalayennes, CEH) presents current social science research on a vast area, centred on the Himalayas, that spans the Tibetan...
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Tracing spiritual and affective relatedness in Tibetan and Inner Asian societies
The annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, which took place in Montreal (16-21 November), brought together several thousands of scholars to talk and exchange about their research....
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Les minorités de Chine à l’exposition universelle de Shanghai
Par le biais de l’exposition universelle organisée à Shanghai en 2010 sur le thème : « Better city, better life » (chengshi rang shenghuo geng mei hao 城市让生活更美好), la Chine a montré comment elle conçoit...
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L’Himalaya à l’épreuve de l’expérience ethnographique
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 «...
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Incompleteness in Yi writings
China officially numbers fifty-five “minority nationalities” (shaoshu minzu 少数民族)—an expression often inappropriately translated as “national minorities” and wrongly regarded as “ethnic groups”. One of...
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Doctoral students workshop in Tibetan studies
The French Society for Tibetan Studies (Société Française d’Études du Monde Tibétain / SFEMT, founded in 2012) is pleased to announce its first Doctoral students workshop in Tibetan studies (organized...
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New book : Versets chamaniques. Le Livre du sacrifice à la terre (textes...
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...
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Pouvoir, musique et chamanisme. La Chine des marges vue par deux ethnologues
Le Comptoir des Presses, 86 rue Claude Bernard, 75005 Paris, organise le jeudi 27 juin à 19H, une rencontre à l’occasion de la parution de : Versets chamaniques de Aurélie Névot Le pouvoir en chantant,...
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Social topologies (1/3). Tattoo interface
As objects of anthropological inquiry, a body, a house, and a territory each pose a similar set of questions in relation to notions of interiority/exteriority; identity/alterity; limit or boundary;...
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Social topologies (2/3). The House
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...
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New book: Masters of psalmody, by Aurélie Névot
Masters of psalmody (bimo) : scriptural shamanism in southwestern China, by Aurélie Névot. Leiden: Brill, 2019. Collection “Religion in Chinese societies” 15. In Masters of Psalmody (bimo ) Aurélie...
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European Bulletin of Himalayan Research: New issue
A special issue titled “Storying multi-species relationships, commoning and the state in the Himalayas” edited by Erik de Maaker and Dan Smyer Yü has been published. This is the EBHR issue 58 and it...
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New Book: Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia — with a comment
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...
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