Suchergebnisse

Right there but still unnoticed information on dGa' Idan pho brang Mi ser from archival material published in German(y) Jeanne Bischoff -- The role of the Ambans in the Dalai Lama government according to the Ten-Point Edict Kalsang Norbu Gurung -- In search of the Tibetan translators within the Manchu empire an attempt to go from the global to the local Fabienne Jagou -- On the edition, structure, and authorship of the Weizang Tongzhi Liu Yuxuan -- Sde srid Sangs rgyas rgya mtsho's short remarks on ordeals in his Guidelines for Government Officials Christoph Cüppers -- An almost forgotten dGe lugs pa incarnation line as Manorial Lord in bKra shis ljongs, Central Tibet Peter Schwieger -- How to tame a wild monastic elephant Drepung monastery according to the great Fifth Berthe Jansen -- How should we define social status? The study of "intermediate groups" in Central Tibet (1895-1959) Alice Travers -- Who were the Tibetan lawmakers? Fernanda Pirie -- Recapturing runaways, or administration through contract the 1830 covenant (Gan rgya) on Kotapa Tax exiles and Sikkimese border regions Saul Mullard -- Reflections on recruitment and ritual economy in three Himalayan village monasteries Astrid Hovden -- Hidden Himalayan transcripts strategies of social opposition in Mustang (Nepal), 19th-20th centuries Charles Ramble

Laura Fair is Professor of History at Michigan State University in the U.S.A. She lived in Zanzibar for many years doing research for her first book: Pastimes and Politics: Culture, Community and Identity in Post-abolition Urban Zanzibar, 1890-1945. In this book she illustrates how former slaves used the social and cultural tools at their command to demonstrate their freedom from slavery and articulate alternative visions of justice under colonialism. Her current book project is a wide-ranging study of commercial cinema in colonial and post-colonial Tanzania, exploring changes in exhibition, d