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Tibetan Marriage/Polyandry, Demography, Fertility, and Family Planning
Penam 2002
Socio-economic and Cultural Factors Underlying the Contemporary Revival of Fraternal Polyandry in Tibet.
[PhD dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 2001]
Taiyang xia de rizi: Xizang nongqu dianxing hunyin de renleixue yanjiu. Zhongguo zangxue chubanshe. (Life under the Sun: Anthropological Research on the typical marital type of a Tibetan agricultural district.)
[China-Tibet Studies Publishing House. 2012]
[The History of the Family Vol. 8: 423-444, 2003.]
Old-Age Security, Religious Celibacy, And Aggregate Fertility In a Tibetan Population
[Journal of Population Research Vol. 18: 52-66, 2001.]
Tibetan Fertility Transitions: Comparisons With Europe, China, and India
[JIATS, no 4 (December 2008), THL #T5556, 21 pp]
A Preliminary Bibliography of Tibetan Demography [Manuscript]
Demographic Analysis of Small Populations Using the Own-Children Method (.pdf)
[Field Methods, Vol. 16, No. 4, November 2004 379–395]
Polyandry and Population Growth in a Historical Tibetan Society (.pdf)
[History of the Family 8 (2003) 423–444]
Methods, Meanings, and Representations in the Study of Past Tibetan Societies (.pdf)
[Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, no. 1 (October 2005): 1-11]
Demographic Dimensions of an Intervillage Land Dispute in Nubri, Nepal (.pdf)
[American Anthropologist. 103(4):1096-1113. 2001.]
Namas and Nyelus: Marriage, Fertility, and Illegitimacy in Tibetan Societies (.pdf)
[Tibetan Borderlands. PIATS 2003.]
Tibetan Fertility Transitions in China and South Asia (.pdf)
[Population and Development Review 31(2): 337–349 (June 2005)]
Using Images to Promote Pronatalism and Sexual Endogamy Among Tibetan Exiles in South Asia
[Visual Anthropology Review, Vol. 22, Issue 2, pp. 34-52. 2006.]
"Not Found in Tibetan Society": Culture, Childbirth, and a Politics of Life on the Roof of the World
[Himalaya. XXX(1-2). 101-115, 2010.]
Population Invasion versus Urban Exclusion in the Tibetan Areas of Western China
[Population and Development Review, 34, no. 4, December 2008: 631-662]
The Rise of the Polyandrous House: Marriage, Kinship and Social Mobility in Rural Tsang, Tibet
[PhD Dissertation. University of Oslo. 2006.]
Changing Population Characteristics in Tibet, 1959 to 1965
[Population Studies, Vol. 19, No. 3: pp 317-320. March 1966]
[Updated 2011 with author's note. Anthropology. 12/13. pp 74-78.]
[Natural History. 96(3):109-112, 1987.]
[Ethnology. 17(3): 325-327, 1978.]
[Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. 27(1): 64-74, 1971.]
[Anthropos. 85.]
Adjudication and Partition in the Tibetan Stem Family (.pdf)
[Chinese Family Law and Social Change in Historical and Contemporary Perspective. Seattle, WA. University of Wahington Press. 205-214, 1978.]
New Perspectives on Tibetan Fertility and Population Decline (.pdf)
[American Ethnologist. 8 (4): 721-729, 1981]
Fraternal Polyandry and Fertility
[Human Ecology. 4(3): 223-233, 1976]
see also: Cynthia M. Beall & Melvyn C. Goldstein
Tibetan Fraternal Polyandry: A Test of Sociobiological Theory
[American Anthropologist. 83(1): 898-901, 1981
The Transformation of the Social Matrix of Tibetan Populations in the High Himalaya (.pdf)
[Environmental and Human Population Problems at High Altitude. Pp 101-105. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. 1981.]
Preliminary Notes on Marriage and Kinship Among the Sherpa of Helambu and Solo-Khumba andLhasa Tibetans
[Contributions to Nepalese Studies. Vol. 2, No. 1: 57-70, 1975.]
Fertility and Family Planning in Rural Tibet (.pdf)
[The China Journal. 47: 19-40, 2002]
see also: Development and Change in Rural Tibet, Problems and Adaptations
China's Birth Control Policy in the Tibet Autonomous Region: Myths and Realities (.pdf)
[Asian Survey Vol. XXXI. 3: 285-303, March 1991]
On Studying Fertility at High Altitude: A Rejoinder to Hoff (.pdf)
[American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 86, No. 2 (Jun., 1984), pp. 419-423]
High Altitude Hypoxia, Culture, and Human Fecundity/Fertility: A Comparative Study (.pdf)
[American Anthropologist. Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 61-64. 1983.]
Tibetan Population in China: Myths and Facts Re-examined (.pdf)
[Asian Ethnicity Vol. 1 N.1: 11-36, March 2000]
Why Polyandry Fails: Sources of Instability in Polyandrous Marriages (.pdf)
[Current Anthropology, Vol. 38, No. 3. (Jun., 1997), pp. 375-398.]
Fathers and Sons: Kinship Value and Validation in Tibetan Polyandry (.pdf)
[Man, New Series, Vol. 22, No. 2. (Jun., 1987), pp. 267-286.]
Differential Child Care in Three Tibetan Communities: Beyond Son Preference (.pdf)
[Population and Development Review Vol. 13 N.2: 281-305, 1987]
The Demise of Marriage in Purang, Tibet: 1959-1990 (.pdf)
[Tibetan Studies Vol. 1, Proceedings of 6th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies. 1992]
Temporary Migrants in Lhasa in 2005 (.pdf)
[Co-written with Dr. Tanzen Lhundup. Presented at the 11th Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Study, Bonn University, Germany (August 27-September 2)]
Han and Tibetan Residential Patterns in Lhasa (.pdf)
[The China Quarterly No. 128 (December 1991), pp. 814-835.]
Population Structure and Changes in the Tibet Autonomous Region (.pdf)
[Presented at the International Conference on “Tibet Autonomy” at Harvard University (Nov. 28-29, 2007)]
Marriages and Spouse Selection in Tibet (.pdf)
[Development and Society, Vol 30 No.1 (June 2001), pp 79-117]
The Tibetan Population and Their Geographical Distribution in China (.pdf)
[Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the 6th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies.
Vol.1: 507-516, 1994]
China's Population: New Trends and Challenges (.pdf)
[Population Reference Bureau, Vol 59, No 2. 2004]
Culture and Fertility in the Nepal Himalayas: A Test of a Hypothesis (.pdf)
[Human Ecology. 12(2): 163-181, 1984.]
Introduction (with Houben, Vincent), and Planning the Modern Tibetan Family in China (.pdf)
[Excerpts from "Figurations of Modernity:
Global and Local Representations in Comparative Perspective", published Dec 2008 by Campus Verlag]
Planning the Modern Tibetan Family (.pdf)
[V. Houben and M Schrempf (eds.), Figurations of Modernity - Global and Local Representations in Comparative Perspective, pp. 121-151, 2008]
The Marriage Customs of Ru-Thog (Mnga'-Ris) (.pdf)
[Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the 6th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Vol 2. 1992]
