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2013. ‘Voices of vanishing worlds: Endangered languages, orality, and cognition’, Análise Social, 205, XLVII (4.o), 2012, pp. 846-869.
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2012. ‘Results from the linguistic survey of sikkim: mother tongues in education’, Buddhist Himalaya: Studies in Religion, History and Culture, Volume II, edited by Alex McKay and Anna Balikci-Denjongpa, pp. 127-142.
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2012. ‘Nepal and Bhutan in 2011’, Asian Survey, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 138-146, with Sara Shneiderman.
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2012. ‘Salvaging the records of salvage ethnography: The story of the Digital Himalaya Project’, Book 2.0, Vol. No. 1, pp. 39-46.
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2011. ‘Born Archival: The Ebb and Flow of Digital Documents from the Field’, History and Anthropology, Volume 22, Number 4, December 2011, pp. 445–460.
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| 2006 | ‘Revisiting Ethnography, Recognizing a Forgotten People: The Thangmi of Nepal and India’, in Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS), Volume 11, Number 1, June 2006, pp. 97-181. [with Sara Shneiderman]
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| 2005 | ‘Language endangerment and linguistic rights in the Himalayas: A case study from Nepal’, in Mountain Research and Development (MRD), Volume 25, Number 1, February 2005, pp. 4-9. [ISSN 0276-4741]
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| 2004 | ‘Newar-Thangmi lexical correspondences and the linguistic classification of Thangmi’, in Journal of Asian and African Studies (JAAS), Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), No. 68, September 2004, pp. 97-120. [ISSN 0387-2807]
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| 2004 | ‘The phonology of Thangmi: a Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal’, in Journal of Asian and African Studies (JAAS), Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), No. 67, March 2004, pp. 63-103. [ISSN 0387-2807]
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| 1998 | ‘The Thangmi verbal agreement system and the Kiranti connection’, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. LXI, No. 3, Oxford University Press, pp. 476-491
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Dr Mark Turin
Program Director
Yale Himalaya InitiativeFellow, Branford College (Yale)
Fellow, Hughes Hall (Cambridge)Director, Digital Himalaya Project
& World Oral Literature Projectvisiting address:
room 303B
34 Hillhouse Ave
New Haven, 06511-8936postal address:
South Asian Studies Council
MacMillan Center for Area Studies
Yale University
PO Box 208206
New Haven, CT 06520-8206mark.turin@yale.edu
office: 203 432 6252
fax: 203 432 2393Twitter: markturin
- Wim van Spengen, #Himalayan scholar and friend, passed away on May 17, 2013. Our thoughts are with his family. We will be much missed. 02:35:40 PM May 19, 2013 from web
- Photo of Malcolm Meerendonk, Dor Bahadur Bista and the head of the Brahmin household, by Jim Fisher, Bijeshwori 1963 http://t.co/gTW3HZQK0w 12:47:33 PM May 18, 2013 from web




