Melvyn Goldstein

Melvyn C. Goldstein ( born February 8, 1938 in New York, NY) is einUS -American anthropologist and Tibetologist. His main scientific interests are in the areas of Tibetan society, history and contemporary politics in Tibet, population studies, polyandry, nomads in Tibet, lexicography, studies on topics of cultural and development ecology, economic change and cross-cultural gerontology.

Career

Study of history at the University of Michigan ( completion 1960) and in 1968 a doctorate in anthropology at the University of Washington. 1968-1990: Assistant or Associate until 1971 (until 1977 ) Professor, then Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio from 1975 to 2002 Chairman of the Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University from 1987 to today Director of the Center for Research on Tibet, Case Western Reserve University, and since 1991 John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology, Case Western reserve University; Co - Director, Center for Research on Tibet, and Professor of International Health, School of Medicine (secondary appointment ) He married the daughter of the famous Tibetan scholar aristocrats Surkhang Wangchen Gelek Surkhang Wangchen Gelek ..

Research

Especially in Tibet (mainly Tibetan Autonomous Region ), the research of Goldstein to a whole range of issues to be regarded as pioneering: nomadic life and economy, the impact of political and economic reforms on rural Tibet, family planning and fertility, modern history Tibet and socio -economic change. In addition, resulted in research visits to Tibetan exiles in India ( Bylakuppe ), in northwestern Nepal ( in Limi ), Mongolia (among nomads in the Western Mongolian province of Hovd ) and Inner China ( about modernization and the elderly in the Han population)

In his current research projects, he deals with the oral history of Tibet, a multi-volume work on the history of modern Tibet (so far two volumes ), the story of Nyemo uprising in 1969, and a long-term study on the impact of China's reform policies on rural Tibet ( nomads and farmers ).

He describes Tibet before 1950 as the de facto independent, but also as a feudal theocracy. The Tibetan independence activist Jamyang Norbu denounced his work A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State, which received an Honorable Ehrwähnung for the best single book on China in 1989 by the Association for Asian Studies, at. Norbu said that they made ​​little contribution honest and keeps the documentation of events in Tibetan history for shameful.

Work (selection)

  • Melvyn C. Goldstein: A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951. University of California Press, 1991, ISBN 0-520-07590-0
  • Melvyn C. Goldstein: The Snowlion and the Dragon: China, Tibet and the Dalai Lama. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997, ISBN 0520219511
  • Melvyn C. Golstein, Cynthia M. Beall: The nomads of western Tibet. The survival of the Tibetan pastoral nomads. Nuremberg 1991, ISBN 3922619118
  • Melvyn C. Goldstein, William Siebenschuh, Tashi Tsering: The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering. M.E.SharpeInc. , 1997, ISBN 1563249502
  • Melvyn C. Goldstein, Matthew Kapstein (eds. ): Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity. University of California, Berkeley, 1998, ISBN 0520211308
  • Melvyn C. Goldstein, Foreign Affairs, The Dalai Lama 's Dilemma, Volume 77, Number 1, January / February 1998.
  • Melvyn C. Goldstein, Chinese Edition of The Struggle for a Modern Tibet: the Life of Tashi Tsering, Mirror Books, Carle Place, NY., 2000.
  • Melvyn C. Goldstein, A New Tibetan English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press. Pp 1200, 2001, ISBN 0520204379
  • Melvyn C. Goldstein, Ben Jiao, Cynthia M. Beall & Phuntso Tsering. Fertility and Family Planning in Rural Tibet. The China Journal. Issue 1, 2002.
  • Melvyn C. Goldstein and Cynthia M. Beall. " Changing patterns of Tibetan nomadic pastoralism. " In Human Biology of Pastoral Populations, Leonard and Crawford (eds. ). Cambridge University Press, 131-150.
  • Melvyn C. Goldstein, Dawei Sherap, William Siebenschuh. A Tibetan Revolutionary. The political life of Bapa Phüntso Wangye. U. of California Press, pp. 371, 2004
  • A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 2: The Calm Before the Storm: 1951-1955, University of California Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0520249417
  • The Remote World of Tibet 's Nomads
  • The Impact of China 's Reform Policy on the Nomads of Western Tibet
  • Change and Continuity in Nomadic Pastoralism on the Western Tibetan Plateau
  • Nomads of Golok, a Report
  • A Report on Limi Panchayat, Humla District, Karnali Zone (PDF file, 1.65 MB )
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