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Beyond the Rebel ‘Territorial Trap’: Governing Armed Sovereign Formations in Eastern Myanmar
Development and Change, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 441-466, May 2026.ABSTRACT Territorial control is a central concept in the study of civil wars and rebel governance. However, scholars often fall into a ‘territorial trap’, assuming that territorial control is either an outcome of or a precondition for armed governance. Based on immersive fieldwork in eastern Myanmar, this article traces how different spatial orderings ...
Tony Neil, Saw Day Chit Htoo
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Новые исследования Тувы, 2019 Among the collections of the National Museum of the Republic of Tuva there are over 20000 archival units of manuscripts and xylographs in Tibetan language.
Rita P. Sumba
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Higher Education Quarterly, Volume 80, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT Doctoral defences play a critical role in safeguarding the integrity and credibility of doctoral education. In Mongolia, however, defence practices, administered through centralised committees rooted in Soviet academic traditions, face significant structural, cultural, and ethical challenges.
Orkhon Gantogtokh
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Heritage ScienceTibetan Buddhist monasteries constitute significant cultural heritages of ethnic minorities, evolving into the Principal-Subordinate Monastery System (PSMS) with profound historical and cultural significance.
Weijia Li +5 more
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When does the story end? Presence, the present and ‘the contemporary world’
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 19-27, April 2026.Abstract We write and read ethnography in the wake of time passing: a fact that has long thrown up a host of epistemological and ethical issues for the doing of anthropology. In this essay I revisit this classic problem—the problem of the ethnographic present—asking what happens when we rethink the relationship between ‘the present’ and ‘presence’, the
Michael Edwards
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Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT One barrier to mental health and a common focus of psychotherapy is the tendency to identify with relentless, often self‐critical thinking that searches for faults, becomes easily distracted, and pulls individuals away from the present moment.
Barbara Carter
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A Hiatus in the Cutting of Buddhist Caves in the Western Deccan
Ancient Asia, 2010 This article places the expansion of Buddhist monasteries in the Western Deccan in its wider context, examining how social, political and economic forces might have impacted on the tempo of Buddhist cave cutting.
Gethin Rees
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Assessing Mammal Conservation Effectiveness in the World's Highest‐Elevation Protected Area Network
Diversity and Distributions, Volume 32, Issue 3, March 2026.ABSTRACT Aim Protected areas (PAs) are central to global biodiversity conservation, but their effectiveness in understudied regions, such as high‐altitude ecosystems, remains poorly understood. Tibet contains the world's highest‐elevation PA network and a remarkably diverse mammalian fauna, especially medium‐ and large‐bodied mammals (MLM) that are of ...
Yaqian Cui +14 more
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BUDDHIST MONASTERIES AND STATE SUPPORT IN MONGOLIA A BRIEF OVERVIEW
, 2020 During the history of Mongolian Buddhism the State has always significant role in supporting religion and monasteries. Möngke Khan held the first religious dispute of Buddhist, Muslim and Christian monks in the 13th century and gently allowed all foreign
Teleki Krisztina
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JAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 9, Issue 1, January–December 2026.ABSTRACT This study investigates the characteristics of courtyards as communal spaces within the courtyard‐style settlements of Patan City, Nepal, through an examination of ownership and usage. A block with three interconnected Buddhist monastery courtyards—Ilānanī, Sasunanī, and Kwābahā—was selected.
Lata Shakya +2 more
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