Martin Saxer – Publications

Books

2013 : Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine. The Creation of An Industry and the Moral Economy of Tibetanness. Oxford/New York: Berghahn.

Edited Volume

2016 : The Art of Neighbouring: Mediating Borders along China’s Frontiers, edited by Martin Saxer and Zhang Juan. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (Autumn 2016)

Peer-Reviewed Papers and Book Chapters

2016 : “Neighbouring in the Borderworlds Along China’s Frontiers”, by Juan Zhang and Martin Saxer, in The Art of Neighbouring: Mediating Borders along China’s Frontiers, edited by Martin Saxer and Juan Zhang. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (Autumn 2016).

2016 : “New Roads, Old Trades: Neighbouring China in North-Western Nepal”, in The Art of Neighbouring: Mediating Borders along China’s Frontiers, edited by Martin Saxer and Juan Zhang. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (Autumn 2016).

2016 : “Pathways: A concept, field site and methodological approach to study remoteness and connectivity”, in Himalaya 36/2 (Autumn 2016).

2014 : “Re-fusing Ethnicity and Religion: An Experiment on Tibetan Grounds”. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 2/2014: 181-204.

2014 : “The Journeys of Tibetan Medicine”, in The Art of Tibetan Medicine, ed. T. Hofer, Seattle/New York: University of Washington Press and Rubin Museum of Arts.

2013 : “Between China and Nepal: Trans-Himalayan Trade and the Second Life of Development in Upper Humla”. Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 8 (September 2013): 31-52. https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-8/saxer.

2012 : “The Moral Economy of Cultural Identity. Tibet, Cultural Survival, and the Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage”, Civilisations 61 (1): 65-81.

2012 : “A Goat’s Head on a Sheep’s Body? Manufacturing Good Practices for Tibetan Medicine”, Medical Anthropology 31 (6): 497-513.

2011 : “Herbs and Traders in Transit: Border Regimes and Trans-Himalayan Trade in Tibetan Medicinal Plants”. Asian Medicine 5, no. 2009 (2011): 317-339.

2010 : “Tibetan Medicine and Russian Modernities”, in Medicine Between Science and Religion. Explorations on Tibetan Grounds, eds V. Adams, M. Schrempf, and S. Craig. Oxford: Berghahn.

Under Review

2016 : “A Spectacle of Maps: Cartographic Hopes and Anxieties in the Pamirs”, submitted May 2016.

Working Papers

2014 : “Die Peripherie der Ethologie: Austausch und Rückzug am Rande des Nationalstaats”, Working Papers in Social and Cultural Anthropology 7, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Munich.

Book reviews

2013 : Review of Francis Khek Gee Lim: Imagining the Good Life: Negotiating Culture and Development in Nepal Himalaya. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research 42 (Spring/Summer): 173-176.

Unreviewed, research-based works

2010 : Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine. The Creation of An Industry and the Moral Economy of Tibetanness. PhD thesis, University of Oxford.

2005 : Journeys with Tibetan Medicine, Masters thesis submitted to the University of Zurich, www.anyma.ch/journeys/doc/thesis.pdf.