Kim Gutschow
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
A.B. Harvard
Ph.D. Harvard
MAJOR INTERESTS
- Reproductive and maternal health
- Critical medical anthropology
- Gender and sexuality
- Religious conflict and identity in South Asia
- Tibet and South Asia
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- "The Practice of Tibetan Medicine in Zangskar: A Case of Wind Disorder"(PDF). Forthcoming in Healing at the Periphery: Ethnographies of Tibetan Medicine in India. Laurent Pordie, ed. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009.
- "The Politics of Being Buddhist in Zangskar: Partition and Today" (PDF), India Review 5 (3–4): 470–498. 2006.
- "How Buddhist Renunciation Produces Difference." In Women’s Renunciation in South Asia: Nuns, Yoginis, Saints, and Singers. Meena Khandelwal, Sondra Hausner, and Ann Grodzins Gold, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Being a Buddhist Nun: The Struggle for Enlightenment in the Himalayas. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. ** Winner: Sharon Stephens Book Prize, American Ethnological Society.
- "A Landscape Dissolved: Households, Fields, and Irrigation in Rinam, Northwest India." In Space and Territory in the Buddhist Himalaya. Niels Gutschow, Charles Ramble, and Ernst Steinkellner, eds. Vienna: Franz Steinkellner Verlag, 2003.
- "The Delusion of Gender and Renunciation in Buddhist Kashmir." In Everyday Life in South Asia. Diane Mines and Sarah Lamb, eds. Pp. 261-274. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2002.
- "What Makes a Nun? Apprenticeship and Ritual Passage in Zangskar, North India." Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 24(2): 187-216, 2001.
- "Hydrologic in the Western Himalaya: Several Case Studies From Zangskar." In Culture Area Karakorum Studies. Karakorum-Hindukush-Himalaya: Dynamics of Change. Irmtraud Stellrecht, ed. Pp. 443-473. Köln: Rudiger Köppe Verlag, 1998.
- "Lords of the Fort, Lords of the Water, and No Lords at All: A Comparison of Irrigation in Three Tibetan Societies." In Recent Research on Ladakh. Henry Osmaston and Ngawang Tsering, eds. Pp. 105-116. Bristol: University of Bristol Press, 1997.
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