Eveline Bingaman, Heidi Fjeld, Nancy E. Levine, J. Samuels
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Formations in kinship have received little attention in Tibetan studies, particularly in the period following pivotal publications by Goldstein (1971a; 1971b; 1971c; 1978), Aziz (1978), Levine (1981; 1988), and Diemberger (1993). As additional archives and new field-sites have been made available, studies of Tibet and its borderlands (with borderlands here referring to areas occupied by populations with linguistic, cultural and ethnic affinities with Tibetans) are producing a wealth of data on cultural values and everyday social life, including on kinship and relatedness. The newer studies have addressed and enhanced our understanding of issues raised in the earlier work but have fallen short of bringing these findings to bear on broader and more contemporary concerns within the field of anthropology. Similar observations can be made about historically oriented fields of Tibetan studies, whose
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The Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU) was founded in 1986 as a group within the Department of Social Anthropology to promote research and teaching relating to Mongolia and Inner Asia on an inter-disciplinary basis. The unit aims to promote and encourage study of this important region within and without the University of cambridge, and to provide training and support for research to all those concerned with its understanding. It is currently one of the very few research-oriented forums in the world in which scholars can address the contemporary and historical problems of the region.