Collected Articles of Professor Goldstein

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The articles on this page are listed in reverse chronological order along with the contributing authors.

Development and Change in Rural Tibet, Problems and Adaptations

Melvyn C. Goldstein, Ben Jiao, Cynthia M. Beall, Phuntso Tsering

[Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development, and Society in a Disputed Region. 2005.]

The United States, Tibet, and the Cold War

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[Journal of Cold War Studies. Volume 8, Number 3, 2005: 145-164.]

Tibetan Fertility Transitions in China and South Asia (.pdf)

Geoff Childs, Melvyn C. Goldstein, Ben Jiao, Cynthia Beall

[Population and Development Review. 31(2): 337-349, June 2005.]

Higher offspring survival among Tibetan women with high oxygen saturation genotypes residing at

4,000 m (.pdf)

C.M. Beall, Kijoung Song, Robert C. Elston, Melvyn C. Goldstein

[PNAS published September 7, 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0405949101 ( Anthropology-Social Sciences ).]

On Modern Tibetan History: Moving Beyond Stereotypes (.pdf)

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[Tibet and Her Neighbours:A History. London: Edition Hansjoerg Mayer. Pp. 217 - 226, 2003.]

Development and Change in Rural Tibet, Problems and Adaptations

Melvyn C. Goldstein, Ben Jiao, C.M. Beall, Phuntso Tsering

[Asian Survey. 43(5): 758 - 779, September/October. 2003.]

Fertility and Familiy Planning in Rural Tibet (.pdf)

Melvyn C. Goldstein, Ben Jiao, C.M. Beall, Phuntso Tsering

[The China Journal. 47: 19-40, 2002.]

The Revival of Monastic Life in Drepung Monastery (.pdf)

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival & Cultural Identity. Pp. 15-52. 1998.]

The Dalai Lama's Dilemma (.pdf)

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[Foreign Affairs. 77(1):83 - 97. 1998.]

Quantitative Genetic Analysis of Arterial Oxygen Saturation in Tibetan Highlanders (.pdf)

C.M. Beall, K.P. Strohl, John Blangero, Sarah Williams-Blangero, G.M. Brittenham, Melvyn C. Goldstein

[Human Biology. 69(5): 597-604, 1997.]

Basal Metabolic Rate and Dietary Seasonality Among Tibetan Nomads

C.M. Beall, J. Henry, C. Worthma, Melvyn C. Goldstein

[American Journal of Human Biology. 8: 361-370, 1996.]

Nomads of Golok, a Report

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[Manuscript, 1996.]

Major Gene for Percent Oxygen Saturation of Arterial Hemoglobin in Tibetan Highlanders (.pdf)

C.M. Beall, J. Blangero, S. Williams-Blangero, Melvyn C. Goldstein

[AJPA. 95: 271-276, 1994.]

What Is Tibet? (.docx)                                                                                                                                   

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[Resistance and Reform in Tibet. London: Hurst & Co., 1994.]

Income and Family Support Among Rural Elderly in Zhejiang Province, China (.pdf)

Melvyn C. Goldstein, Yachun Ku

[Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology. 8(3):197-223. 1993.]

High Prevalence of Excess Fat and Central Fat Patterning Among Mongolian Pastoral Nomads (.pdf)

C.M. Beall, Melvyn C. Goldstein

[American Journal of Human Biology. 4(6):747-756. 1992.]

Tibetan Lexicography (.pdf)

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2548-2550. 1991.]

Change and Continuity in Nomadic Pastoralism on the Western Tibetan Plateau

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[Nomadic Peoples. 28: 105-23, 1991.]

Tibet: After the Fall of Chamdo (.pdf)

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[The Tibet Journal. 26(1): 58-95, 1991.]

Foraging Ecology of Livestock on the Tibetan Changtang: A Comparison of Three Adjacent Grazing

Areas

R.P. Cincotta, P.J. van Soest, J. B. Robertson, C.M. Beall, M.C. Goldstein

[Arctic and Alpine Research. 23(2): 149-61, 1991.]

China's Birth Control Policy in the Tibet Autonomous Region: Myths and Realities (.pdf)

Melvyn C. Goldstein, Cynthia M. Beall

[Asian Survey. Vol. XXXI. 3: 285-303, March 1991.]

The Dragon and the Snow Lion: The Tibet Question in the Twentieth Century (.pdf)

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[China Briefing. A.J. Kane (ed.), Westview Press, pp. 129-168. 1990.]

Religious Conflict in the Traditional Tibetan State

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[In "Reflections on Tibetan Culture: Essays in Memory of T.V. Wylie". L. Epstein & R. Sherburne (eds.),

Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen. Pp. 231-47, 1990.]

Household Composition of the Elderly in Two Rural Villages in the People's Republic of China (.pdf)

Melvyn C. Goldstein, Yachun Ku, Charlotte Ikels

[Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology. Vol. 5, No. 2. 1990.]

Traditional Nomadic Pastoralism and Ecological Conservation on Tibet's Northern Plateau

M.C. Goldstein, C.M. Beall, R.P. Cincotta

[National Geographic Research. 6(2): 139-56, 1990.]

The Remote World of Tibet's Nomads

M.C. Goldstein, C.M. Beall

[National Geographic Magazine. June, 1989.]

Freedom, Servitude and the "Servant-serf" Nyima: a re-rejoinder to Miller (.pdf)

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[The Tibet Journa Vol. XIV No.2:56-60. 1989.]

The Impact of China's Reform Policy on the Nomads of Western Tibet

M.C. Goldstein, C.M. Beall

[Asian Survey. 29(6): 619-41, 1989.]

On The Nature Of The Tibetan Peasantry : a rejoinder (.pdf)

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[The Tibet Journal:61-65. 1987.]

Hemoglobin Concentration of High-Altitude Tibetans and Bolivian Aymara (.pdf)

C.M. Beall, G.M. Brittenham, K.P. Strohl, J. Blangero, S. Williams-Blangero,Melvyn C. Goldstein, M.J. Decker, E. Vargas, M. Villena, R. Soria, C. Gonzales
[American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 106: 385-400, 1988.]

Sociocultural Influences on the Working Capacity of Elderly Nepali Men (.pdf)

C.M. Beall, Melvyn C. Goldstein

[Capacity for Work in the Tropics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 215-226. 1988.]

When Brothers Share A Wife

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[Natural History. 96(3):109-112, 1987.]

Hemoglobin Concentration of Pastoral Nomads Permanently Resident at 4,950-5,450 Meters in Tibet (.pdf)

C.M. Beall, M.C. Goldstein

[AJPA. 73: 433-439, 1987.]

Reexamining Choice, Dependency and Command In The Tibetan Social System: 'Tax Appendages'

and Other Landless Serfs" (.pdf)

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[The Tibet Journal XI. No.4:79-113, 1986.]

Family Change, Caste, and the Elderly in a Rural Locale in Nepal (.pdf)

M.C. Goldstein, C.M. Beall

[Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology. 1(3): 305-317. 1986.]

Age Differences in Sensory and Cognitive Function in an Elderly Non-Western Population (.pdf)

C.M. Beall, M.C. Goldstein

[Journal of Gerontology. 41(3): 387-389. 1986.]

The Proximate Determinants of Fertility in the Kathmandu Valley Nepal (.pdf)

J.L. Ross, J. Blangero, M.C. Goldstein, S. Schuler

[Journal of Biosocial Research. 18(2). 1986.]

Barriers to Effective Family Planning (.pdf)

S. Schuler, N. MacIntosh, M.C. Goldstein

[Studies in Family Planning. Vol. 16(5): 260-270. 1985.]

Tibetan Buddhist Monasticism: Social, Psychological & Cultural Implications (.pdf)

M.C. Goldstein, P. Tsarong

[The Tibet Journal. 10(1): 14-31, 1985.]

Social Structure and Intracohort Variation in Physical Fitness Among Elderly Males in a Traditional Third World Society (.pdf)

C.M. Beall, M.C. Goldstein, E.S. Feldman

[Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 33(6): 406-412. 1985.]

Review of Levine's "The Dynamics of Polyandry"

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[Anthropos. 85. 1985]

An Anthropological Approach to the Study of Illness Behavior in an Urban Community (.pdf)

J.K. Eckert, M.C. Goldstein

[Urban Anthropology. Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 125-138. 1983.]

From a Mountain/Rural to Plains/Urban Society: Implications of the 1981 Nepalese Census (.pdf)

M.C. Goldstein, J.L. Ross, S. Schuler

[Mountain Research and Development. Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 61 - 64. 1983.]

High Altitude Hypoxia, Culture, and Human Fecundity/Fertility: A Comparative Study (.pdf)

M.C. Goldstein, P. Tsarong, C.M. Beall

[American Anthropologist. Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 61-64. 1983.]

Indirect Modernization and the Status of the Elderly in a Rural Third World Setting (.pdf)

M.C. Goldstein, C.M. Beall

[Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology. 37(6): 743 - 748. 1982.]

Lhasa Street Songs: Political and Social Satire in Traditional Tibet (.pdf)

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[The Tibet Journal: 56-66. 1982.]

Biological Function, Activity, and Dependency Among Elderly Sherpa in the Nepal Himalayas (.pdf)

C.M. Beall, M.C. Goldstein

[Social Science & Medicine. Vol. 16: 135 - 140. Great Britain: Pergamon Press, Inc.,   

1982.]

Work, Aging, and Dependency in a Sherpa Population in Nepal (.pdf)

C.M. Beall, M.C. Goldstein

[Social Science & Medicine. Vol. 16: 141 - 147. Great Britain: Pergamon Press, Inc.,   

1982.]

New Perspectives on Tibetan Fertiltiy and Population Decline

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[American Ethnologist. 8 (4): 721-729, 1981.]

Modernization and Aging in the Third and Fourth World: Views from the Rural Hinterland in Nepal (.pdf)

M.C. Goldstein, C.M. Beall

[Human Organization. Vol. 40. 1:48 - 55. Society for Applied Anthropology, 1981.]

Fraternal Polyandry in N.W. Nepal: A Test of Sociobiological Theory (.pdf)

C.M. Beall, M.C. Goldstein

[American Anthropologist. 83(1): 5 - 12. 1981.]

Transformation of the Social Matrix of Tibetan Populations in the High Himalaya (.pdf)

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[Environmental and Human Population Problems at High Altitude. Pp 101-105. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. 1981.]

High Altitude Tibetan Populations in the Remote Himalaya: Social Transformations and its Demographic, Economic, and Ecological Consequences (.pdf)

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[Mountain Research and Development. 1(1):5-18. 1981.]

Adjudication and Partition in the Tibetan Stem Family (.pdf)

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[Chinese Family Law and Social Change in Historical and Contemporary Perspective. Seattle, WA.

University of Washington Press. 205-214, 1978.]

Pahari and Tibetan Polyandry Revisited

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[Ethnology. 17(3): 325-327, 1978.]

Fraternal Polyandry and Fertility in a High Himalayan Valley in N.W. Nepal

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[Human Ecology. 4(3): 223-233, 1976.]

A Report on Limi Panchayat, Humla District, Karnali Zone

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[Contributions to Nepalese Studies. Vol. 2 No. 2: 89-101, 1975.]

Preliminary Notes on Marriage and Kinship Among the Sherpa of Helambu and Solo-Khumba and

Lhasa Tibetans

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[Contributions to Nepalese Studies. Vol. 2, No. 1: 57-70, 1975.]

Tibetan Speaking Agro-Pastoralists of Limi: A Cultural Ecology Overview of High Altitude Adaptation in

the Northwest Himalaya (.pdf)

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[Objets Et Mondes. 14(4): 259-286, 1974.]

The Circulation of Estates in Tibet: Reincarnation, Land and Politics (.pdf)

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[Journal of Asia Studies. Vol. XXXII NO. 3, May 1973, pg. 445-455.]

The Balance Between Centralization and Decentralization in the Traditional Tibetan Political System (.pdf)

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[Central Asiatic Journal. 15(3): 170-182. 1971.]

Stratification, Polyandry, and Family Structure in Central Tibet

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. 27(1): 64-74, 1971.]

Serfdom and Mobility: An Examination of the Institution of "Human Lease" in Traditional Tibetan Society (.pdf)

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[The Journal of Asian Studies. 30(3): 521-534. 1971.]

Taxation and the Structure of a Tibetan Village (.pdf)

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[Central Asiatic Journal. 15(1):1-27. 1971.]

Anthropological Study of the Tibetan Political System - Dissertation(.pdf)

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[University of Washington, 1968.]

A Study of the Ldab Ldob (.pdf)

Melvyn C. Goldstein

[Central Asiatic Journal. 9(2): 125-41, 1964.]