Dear all,
The editors of Asian Highlands Perspectives are pleased to announce the publication of AHP 37 – Centering the Local: A Festschrift for Dr. Charles Kevin Stuart on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday.
This collection of essays celebrates the life and work of Dr. Charles Kevin Stuart. For more than three decades, Kevin Stuart has quietly exerted considerable influence on scholarship on Tibet, China, and Mongolia, demonstrating a particular sensitivity to emic voices, facilitating collaborations between etic-emic viewpoints, but always striving to preserve and privilege the latter. The contributions to this collection bear testimony not only to Kevin’s impact as a scholar, but also as a mentor, educator, and prolific collaborator.
The entire volume is available as a free download from: http://plateauculture.org/writing/centering-local-festschrift-dr-charles-kevin-stuart-occasion-his-sixtieth-birthday
And can also be purchased as an at-cost hard-cover volume from:
Individual contributions to the volume can be downloaded at the following links.
Introduction by Benedict Copps http://plateauculture.org/writing/introduction-centering-local-festschrift-dr-charles-kevin-stuart-occasion-his-sixtieth-birth
An Introduction to Amdo Tibetan Love Songs, or La gzhas by Skal bzang nor bu http://plateauculture.org/writing/introduction-amdo-tibetan-love-songs-or-la-gzhas
A Bibliographic Note and Table on Mid-19th to Mid-20th Century Western Travelogues and Research Reports on Gansu and Qinghai by Bianca Horrleman http://plateauculture.org/writing/bibliographic-note-and-table-mid-19th-mid-20th-century-western-travelogues-and-research-repo
The Last Outstanding Mongghul Folksong Singer by Limusishiden http://plateauculture.org/writing/last-outstanding-mongghul-folksong-singer
Slinking Between Realms: Musk Deer as Prey in Yi Oral Literature by Mark Bender http://plateauculture.org/writing/slinking-between-realms-musk-deer-prey-yi-oral-literature
Describing and Transcribing the Phonologies of the Amdo Sprachbund by Juha Janhunen http://plateauculture.org/writing/describing-and-transcribing-phonologies-amdo-sprachbund
Animals Good for Healing: On Experiences with Folk Healers in Inner Mongolia (China) by Peter Knecht http://plateauculture.org/writing/animals-good-healing-experiences-folk-healers-inner-mongolia-china
Ethnicity and Cultural Diversity on the Northeast Tibetan Plateau: Sanchuan’s Weather Management Rituals in Comparative Context by Gerald Roche http://plateauculture.org/writing/ethnicity-and-cultural-diversity-northeast-tibetan-plateau-sanchuans-weather-management-ritu
Herds on the Move: Transformations in Tibetan Nomadic Pastoral Systems by Daniel Miller http://plateauculture.org/writing/herds-move-transformations-tibetan-nomadic-pastoral-systems
‘Zomia’: New Constructions of the Southeast Asian Highlands and Their Tibetan Implications by Geoffrey Samuel http://plateauculture.org/writing/zomia-new-constructions-southeast-asian-highlands-and-their-tibetan-implications
Witness to Change: A Tibetan Woman Recalls her Life by Nangchukja http://plateauculture.org/writing/witness-change-tibetan-woman-recalls-her-life
A Group of Mural Paintings from the 1930s in A mdo Reb gong by Rob Linrothe http://plateauculture.org/writing/group-mural-paintings-1930s-mdo-reb-gong
Kevin Stuart among Mongolian English-learners in Huhhot in the Mid-1980s by Mandula Borjigin, Narisu Narisu, and Chuluu Ujiyediin http://plateauculture.org/writing/kevin-stuart-among-mongolian-english-learners-huhhot-mid-1980s
མདོ་སྨད་ཡུལ་གྱི་བོད་དབྱིན་སློབ་གསོའི་གནས་བབ་གླེང་བ – བུན་ཁྲང་རྒྱལ http://tinyurl.com/ppu5ont
Timothy Thurston <timothy.thurston@gmail.com>
Postdoctoral Fellow
The Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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