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Research Projects overview
Trading Mongolia's Sovereign Meat
Resource frontiers: managing water on a trans-border Asian river
Resource frontiers: managing water on a trans-border Asian river overview
Objectives
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Russian research sites
Chinese research sites
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Reports from the Field
Selenge Maps and Photos
Selenge Maps and Photos overview
A cable platform carrying people and animals across Selenge river, northern Mongolia [1930s]
A train running along Selenge river, northern Mongolia [1940s]
A village on the bank of Selenge river, Northern Mongolia [1930s]
Logs transported through Selenge river, Selenge province [1930s]
Selenge river, Central Mongolia [1930s – 1950s]
Selenge river, Central Mongolia [1930s – 1950s]
Selenge river, northern Mongolia [1930s]
Selenge river, Selenge province [1930-1950s]
Transporting loads and animals by a cable platform, Selenge river, Northern Mongolia [1940s]
Baikal prayer centre at Selenga Delta
Praying water spirits lusad
Water spirits Lusad of Selenga River
Offerings to water spirits
Historical map of the Selenge river
Newly built cattle farms
Sacred cairn (ovoo) and tenth century statute near banks of the Selenga in Bulgan province, Mongolia
Selenga in central Mongolia (spring 2023)
The Selenga in Bulgan province, Mongolia
Mongolian Cosmopolitical Heritage: Tracing Divergent Healing Practices Across the Mongolian-Chinese Border
Mongolian Cosmopolitical Heritage: Tracing Divergent Healing Practices Across the Mongolian-Chinese Border overview
Project Summary in Mongolian Script
Project Summary in Cyrillic Script
The ‘Nine Black Ingredients’ Pill: COVID-19 Prophylactic in Mongolia
Re-framing Therapeutic Arts Conference: Event Report
Himalayan Connections
Himalayan Connections overview
Himalayan connections
The West Mongolia Initiative
Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project
Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project overview
Pathways to understanding the changing climate
Pathways to understanding the changing climate overview
Cambridge Interdisciplinary Research on the Environment
People
Acknowledgments
Database
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Publications
Opening Workshop 2014
Sensing Landscape Exhibition 2016
Policy Workshop 2016
Curriculum Workshop 2016
PGCE 2017
Where Rising Powers Meet
Where Rising Powers Meet overview
Places
Places overview
Baunt
Blagoveshchensk and Heihe
Heihe
Hulun Buir
Hulun Lake
Hunchun
Khabarovsk and Vladivostok
Kyakhta
Manzhouli
Mardai
Naikhin and Tongjiang
Suifenhe
Tunka
Vladivostok
Zabaikalsk
Media: Presentation by Professor Caroline Humphrey
Media: Presentation by Sayana Namsaraeva
People
Outputs
Climate Histories
Climate Histories overview
People
Oral History of Twentieth Century Mongolia
Oral History of Twentieth Century Mongolia overview
Project Team
Монголын 20-р Зууны Аман Түүх
Project overview
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The Interview Process
The Pilot Project
The Project Team
Transforming Technologies and Buddhist Book Culture
Transforming Technologies and Buddhist Book Culture overview
About
About overview
Acknowledgments
Institutions
Activities
Project Team
People
Tools
Links
Exhibition
A Tibetan Woman Lama and her Reincarnations
A Tibetan Woman Lama and her Reincarnations overview
Researcher
Project Outputs
Collaboration
The Life of Chokyi Dronma (Chos kyi sgron ma) according to her biography
From sacred princess and divine emanation to cadre
Chokyi Dronma's Places
Mural Paintings & Illuminations
Tibetan and Mongolian Rare Books and Manuscripts
Tibetan and Mongolian Rare Books and Manuscripts overview
Project Background
Project Team
Aims
History
Tibetan Materials
Tibetan Materials overview
Tibet Materials - Detail
Mongolian Materials
Catalogue of Tibetan Manuscripts and Blockprints
Tibetan Book Evolution and Technology
Tibetan Book Evolution and Technology overview
Printing Houses
Printing Houses overview
Brag dkar rta so
rDzong dkar
Kun gsal sgang po che
Khams gsum g.yul las rnam rgyal pho brang / Khams gsum rnam rgyal
A ti sha’i chos ‘khor (La ‘debs Valley)
Glang phug (La ‘debs Valley)
La phyi
mDzo lhas / ‘Dzo lhas
gNas
Chab rom phug
Shel dkar
rTsib ri
bSam gtan gling
Grod phug
Style of Editions
Woodcut Illustrations
Wood Analysis
Acknowledgements
People
Institutions
Activities
Activities overview
Events
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Links
Database
Map
The Padgling Traditions in Bhutan
The Padgling Traditions in Bhutan overview
Project Team
The Project
Outputs
The tradition
The main establishments
Incarnation lines
Incarnation lines overview
Gangteng Tulku Line
The Peling Sungtrul Line
The Peling Thugse Line
Background
Teachings
Research on the Environment
Research on the Environment overview
Research in the Community
Climate Histories Seminar Series
Climate Histories Seminar Series overview
The Road to Paris 2015
Seminar Series 2015-2016
Previous seminars
Healthy Waterways
Orkney: Beside the Ocean of Time
Blowing in the Wind
Useful Links
Teaching Resources
Publications
Publications overview
Inner Asia
Inner Asia overview
Inner Asia: Open Access
Inner Asia Book Series
Members' publications
Members' publications overview
On the Edge: Life along the Russia-China Border
Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia
Drones, Tones and Timbres
A Chinese Rebel beyond the Great Wall. The Cultural Revolution and Ethnic Pogrom in Inner Mongolia
China's Camel Country. Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier
Evil Spirits and Rocket Debris
Where Rising Powers Meet
Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit
Research Projects
Where Rising Powers Meet
People
Places
Media: Presentation by Professor Caroline Humphrey
Media: Presentation by Sayana Namsaraeva
Outputs
Trading Mongolia's Sovereign Meat
Resource frontiers: managing water on a trans-border Asian river
Mongolian Cosmopolitical Heritage: Tracing Divergent Healing Practices Across the Mongolian-Chinese Border
Himalayan Connections
The West Mongolia Initiative
Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project
Pathways to understanding the changing climate
Climate Histories
Oral History of Twentieth Century Mongolia
Transforming Technologies and Buddhist Book Culture
A Tibetan Woman Lama and her Reincarnations
Tibetan and Mongolian Rare Books and Manuscripts
Tibetan Book Evolution and Technology
The Padgling Traditions in Bhutan
PI:
Professor Caroline Humphrey
Professor Caroline Humphrey
Chair, MIASU Steering Committee
Founder, MIASU
Research Director, MIASU
ch10001@cam.ac.uk
Dr Franck Billé
fbille@berkeley.edu
Dr Mikkel Bunkenborg
Dr Grégory Delaplace
Dr Gaëlle Lacaze
Dr Sayana Namsaraeva
Senior Research Associate
sn444@cam.ac.uk
Dr Nasan Bayar
Dr Hyun-Gwi Park
Dr Morten Axel Pedersen
Dr Ivan Peshkov
Dr Ed Pulford
Dr Maria Repnikova
Dr Natalia Ryzhova
Dr Ivan Sablin
Dr Tatiana Safonova
Dr István Sántha
Dr Olga Shaglanova
Dr Sören Urbansky
Dr Yang Chen