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ItemNo Preview AvailableLong Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English(Open Book Publishers, 2017)Containing ballads of martial heroism, tales of tragic lovers and visions of the nature of the world, Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English is a rich repository of songs collected amongst the Mongghul of the Seven Valleys, on the northeast Tibetan Plateau in western China. These songs represent the apogee of Mongghul oral literature, and they provide valuable insights into the lives of Mongghul people—their hopes, dreams, and worries. They bear testimony to the impressive plurilingual repertoire commanded by some Mongghul singers: the original texts in Tibetan, Mongghul, and Chinese are here presented in Mongghul, Chinese, and English. The kaleidoscope of stories told in these songs include that of Marshall Qi, a chieftain from the Seven Valleys who travels to Luoyang with his Mongghul army to battle rebels; Laarimbu and Qiimunso, a pair of star-crossed lovers who take revenge from beyond the grave on the families that kept them apart; and the Crop-Planting Song and the Sheep Song, which map the physical and spiritual terrain of the Mongghul people, vividly describing the physical and cosmological world in which they exist. This collection of songs is supported by an Introduction by Gerald Roche that provides an understanding of their traditional context, and shows that these works offer insights into the practices of multilingualism in Tibet. Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet is vital reading for researchers and others working on oral literature, as well as those who study Inner Asia, Tibet, and China’s ethnic minorities. Finally, this book is of interest to linguistic anthropologists and sociolinguists, particularly those working on small-scale multilingualism and pre-colonial multilingualism.
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ItemLinguistic vitality, endangerment, and resilience(University of Hawaii Press, Journals Department, 2017)The concept of “resilience” originated in both ecology and psychology, and refers to the propensity of a system or entity to “bounce back” from a disturbance. Recently, the concept has found increasing application within linguistics, particularly the study of endangered languages. In this context, resilience is used to describe one aspect of long-term, cyclical changes in language vitality. Proponents of “resilience linguistics” argue that understanding long-term patterns of language vitality can be of use in fostering resilience in, and therefore maintenance of, endangered languages. This article takes a critical look at these proposals, based on the examination of long-term trends in the Monguor and Saami languages.
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ItemThe Language Loss of the Indigenous(CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2017-06)
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ItemIntroduction: the transformation of Tibet’s language ecology in the twenty-first century(Mouton de Gruyter, 2017)Tibet’s linguistic diversity is undergoing drastic transformations in the twenty-first century. In this article, I begin my examination of this issue by outlining the extent of Tibet’s linguistic diversity, including not only its numerous Tibetic languages, but also its non-Tibetic minority languages. Using a “language ecology” approach, I examine the mechanisms that have produced and maintained this diversity, as well as the ways this diversity was spatially and socially patterned. I argue that these processes and patterns were largely maintained up until the twenty-first century, when the Chinese state’s program to “Open the West” unleashed an ideologically driven modernization program on Tibet, radically altering its language ecology. I argue that the present trends emerging from this process are likely to continue throughout the twenty-first century, resulting in both language loss and the emergence of new languages, leaving the overall language ecology fundamentally altered by the beginning of the twenty-second century. It is hoped that this article will not only provide a useful framework for future discussions on linguistic diversity in Tibet, but will also focus attention on the challenges facing individual languages in Tibet today.
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ItemI, Ya ri a bsod, am a dog: The Life and Music of a Tibetan Mendicant Singer(Asian Highlands Perspectives, 2011)
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ItemChildbirth and Childcare in Rdo sbis Tibetan Township(Asian Highlands Perspectives, 2011)
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ItemPurity and Fortune in Phug sde Village Rituals(Asian Highlands Perspectives, 2011)
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ItemChange, Reputation, and Hair: A Female Rite of Passage in Mtha' ba Village(Asian Highlands Perspectives, 2012)
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ItemPad Yatra: A Green Odyssey [film](Informa UK Limited, 2016-08-07)
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ItemThe Tibetanization of Henan's Mongols: ethnicity and assimilation on the Sino-Tibetan frontier(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2016)