Volume 40 features research articles on Tibetan mountain deities, Mongghul ritual, material culture in Ladakh, Tibetan ritual practitioners, Tibetan naming practices, and lifestyle migration in Dali. The volume also has two folklore contributions and twenty-one book reviews.

Editor's Note

Articles

Tsering Bum. "THE CHANGING ROLES OF TIBETAN MOUNTAIN DEITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF EMERGING ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES: DKAR PO LHA BSHAM IN YUL SHUL"

Limusishiden (Li Dechun) and Gerald Roche. "SOCIALIZING WITH GODS IN THE MONGGHULBOG RITUAL"

Jacqueline H. Fewes and Abdul Nasir Khan. "MANUSCRIPTS, MATERIAL CULTURE, AND EPHEMERA OF THE SILK ROUTE: ARTIFACTS OF EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY LADAKHITRADE BETWEEN CENTRAL AND SOUTH ASIA"

Libu Lakhi (Li Jianfu). "NAMUYI TIBETAN pha54 tsә54 RITUALS AND ORAL CHANTS"

Duojiezhaxi (Dorje Tashi, Rdo rje bkra shis) and CK Stuart. "A MDO TIBETAN NAMING PRACTICES AND NAME POPULARITY"

Gary Sigley. "THE MOUNTAIN CHANGERS: LIFESTYLE MIGRATION IN SOUTHWEST CHINA"


Folklore

Timothy Thurston and Caixiangduojie. "An A mdo Tibetan Wedding Speech from Ne'u na Village"

Bkra shis bzang po. "Oral Narratives from Bang smad: Deities, Demons, Bla ma, and Leaders


Reviews

Bettina Zeisler. Mountains, Monasteries, and Mosques

Barbara Gerke. The Social Life of Tibetan Biography

Francesca Fiaschetti. China's Encounters on the South and Southwest

Francesca Fiaschetti. Inner Asia, and the Spatial Politics of Empire: Archaeology, Mobility, and Culture Contact

M. Alyson Prude. Pilgrim of the Clear Light

Sienna Craig. At Home in the World

Tristan G. Brown. China From Empire to Nation-State

Robert Entenmann. In the Land of the Eastern Queendom: The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier.

Jonathan Z. Ludwig The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China

Jonathan Z. Ludwig. India-China Borderlands: Conversations Beyond the Centre

Tricia Kehoe. Ethnicity in China; A Critical Introduction

Hilary Howes. Towards Sustainable Use of Rangelands in North-West China

Lei Duan. War Finance and Logistics in Late Imperial China

Magnus Fiskesjö. Chieftains into Ancestors

Nikolas Broy. The Origins of Religious Violence

Kali Cape. Eminent Buddhist Women

Andrew Nelson. The Brave New World of Ethnicity in Nepal

Christine Murphy. The Unbearable Dreamworld of Champa the Driver

Enrico Beltramini. Healing Traditions of the Northwestern Himalayas and Being Human in a Buddhist World

Katia Buffetrille. Mapping Shangrila

Christine Murphy. Tibetan Folktales (World Folklore Series)