Melvyn Goldstein

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Professors
FirstName / namefirst	Melvyn
LastName / namelast	Goldstein
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MainNamePhon	Melvyn Goldstein
SortName	Goldstein, Melvyn
bio	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) Goldstein's research and articles: http://www.case.edu/affil/tibet/CollectedArticles.htm http://www.case.edu/affil/tibet/index.htm File:Interview with Melvyn Goldstein.pdf
affiliation	Case Western Reserve University
phduniversity	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.
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