Goldstein, M.
| English Phonetics | Melvyn Goldstein |
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| Sort Name | Goldstein, Melvyn |
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| Website: | Faculty Page |
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- Primary Affiliation (Workplace)
- Case Western Reserve University
PhD University
- University of Washington
Education
- Ph.D. University of Washington, Anthropology (first to specialize in Tibetan culture), 1968.
- B.A. and M.A. in history at University of Michigan, 1959, 1960.
Biographical Information
John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University
Co-Director, Center for Research on Tibet
Dr. Goldstein is a socio-cultural anthropologist specializing in Tibetan society. HIs topical interest include family and marriage (polyandry), cross-cultural and global aging, population studies, cultural ecology and economic development/change. He has conducted research in Tibet (Tibet Autonomous Region of China) on a range of topics including nomadic pastoralism, the impact of economic reforms on rural Tibet, family planning and fertility, the revival of Buddhism, modern Tibetan history, and socio-economic change. His has also conducted research in India (with Tibetan refugees), in northwest Nepal (with a Tibetan border community in Limi), in western Mongolia (with a nomadic pastoral community in Hovd province), in Kathmandu on family planning and intergenerational relations, and in eastern China on modernization and the elderly). Dr. Goldstein's current projects include: an oral history of Tibet, a multi-volume history of modern Tibet, a longitudinal study of the impact of China's reform policies on Tibetan nomads and a study investigating modernization and changing patterns of intergenerational relations in rural farming Tibet. Source: Professor's Page at Case Western (Accessed March 17, 2012)
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