Territory and identity in Tibet and the Himalayas
In: Brill's Tibetan studies library 2,9
In: PIATS 2000: Tibetan studies; proceedings of the ninth seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000 9
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In: Brill's Tibetan studies library 2,9
In: PIATS 2000: Tibetan studies; proceedings of the ninth seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000 9
In: Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language 16
Literacy continues to be a central issue in anthropology, but methods of perceiving and examining it have changed in recent years. In this 1995 study Niko Besnier analyses the transformation of Nukulaelae from a non-literate into a literate society using a contemporary perspective which emphasizes literacy as a social practice embedded in a socio-cultural context. He shows how a small and isolated Polynesian community, with no access to print technology, can become deeply steeped in literacy in little more than a century, and how literacy can take on radically divergent forms depending on the social and cultural needs and characteristics of the society in which it develops. His case study, which has implications for understanding literacy in other societies, illuminates the relationship between norm and practice, between structure and agency, and between group and individual
This text uses an analysis of gossip as political action to develop an understanding of disparate themes, including conflict, power, agency, morality, emotion and gender. It brings together two methodological traditions - microscopic analysis of unelicited interaction and macroscopic interpretation of social practice
In: Veröffentlichungen zur Sozialanthropologie 1
In: Denkschriften 252
World Affairs Online
Contributed articles presented at the conference "11th Bod-kyi rig-gnas bgro-glen" held in 2014 at Sa-rā Bod-kyi Mtho-rim Slob-gnyer-khang, Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh; on the historical value of Simla Accord, 1914. The Simla Accord, or the Convention Between Great Britain, China, and Tibet, in Simla, was a treaty concerning the status of Tibet negotiated by the representatives of the Republic of China, Tibet and the British India (United Kingdom) in Simla in 1913 and 1914
In: Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 46