Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2009) Joseph Levenson Book Prize Honorable Mention (1989)
Scientific career
Fields
Anthropology
Institutions
Case Western Reserve University
Melvyn C. Goldstein (born February 8, 1938) is an American social anthropologist and Tibet scholar. He is a professor of anthropology at Case Western Reserve University and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
His research focuses on Tibetan society, history and contemporary politics, population studies, polyandry, studies in cultural and development ecology, economic change and cross-cultural gerontology.
Melvyn C. Goldstein (born February 8, 1938) is an American social anthropologist and Tibet scholar. He is a professor of anthropology at Case Western...
studied specific regions of Tibet and the terms were not universal. Both MelvynGoldstein and Geoff Childs however classified the population into three main...
Light Orchestra MelvynGoldstein (born 1938), American social anthropologist Melvyn Grant (born 1944), English artist and illustrator Melvyn Greaves (born...
Chinese Qing dynasty (1644–1912) as also maintaining a form of serfdom. MelvynGoldstein described Tibet as having had serfdom until 1959, but whether or not...
S2CID 154807942. Goldstein, Melvyn. Central Asiatic Journal (1971). Taxation and the Structure of a Tibetan village. Goldstein, Melvyn C. Reexamining Choice...
discuss issues as they arose. According to historians Tom A. Grunfeld, Melvyn C. Goldstein and Tsering Shakya, the young Dalai Lama did ratify the Seventeen...
deferred to the abbot in religious matters. Western historians such as MelvynGoldstein, Elliot Sperling, and Jaques Gernet have described Tibet during the...
Gangdruk with assistance from the CIA. According to contemporary author MelvynGoldstein, the campaign aimed to capture the Lhasa army occupying Chamdo, demoralize...
Tibetologist MelvynGoldstein, argue that under international law the threat of military action does not invalidate a treaty. According to Goldstein, the legitimacy...
and requiring special entry permits for entry.: 120 A 1978 study by MelvynGoldstein and a 1983 study by Lynn Pulman on Tibetan communities-in-exile in...
Lama’s motorcade provided by the royal family. American anthropologist MelvynGoldstein argues that while the Tibetan flag was used by the army, few Tibetans...
and as having been signed under duress. According to Tibetologist MelvynGoldstein, the agreement may still be valid even if signed under military threat...
179. Bell, Charles, "Portrait of the Dalai Lama", p. 399. Goldstein, Melvyn C. Goldstein, A history of modern Tibet, pp. 315–317. A 60-Point Commentary...
(1987). The Songlines Deleuze and Guattari (1980). A Thousand Plateaus MelvynGoldstein: The Impact of China's Reform Policy on the Nomads of Western Tibet...
laws did not extend over the entire country. However, according to MelvynGoldstein, for the 20th century, the Tibetan political system can not be categorized...
of the parties repudiated it, and neither Tibet nor Britain did so. MelvynGoldstein, an American Tibetologist from Case Western Reserve University, indicated...
Tibetan visionary movements in the People's Republic of China". In MelvynGoldstein and Matthew Kapstein (ed.). Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious...
protectorate, Tibet retained a large amount of internal authority. MelvynGoldstein states there is "no question" that Tibet was subordinate to the Qing...
permission to have more than one child. According to Tibetologist MelvynGoldstein, natalist feelings run high in China's Tibet Autonomous Region, among...
applicability to Eastern societies is contested by academics. Tibetologist MelvynGoldstein wrote in 1971 that "Tibet was characterized by a form of institutionalized...
Communist Party founder". 2 July 2004. Retrieved 21 June 2008. Goldstein, Melvyn C. Goldstein/Sherap, Dawei Sherap/Siebenschuh, William R.. A Tibetan Revolutionary:...
of Modern Tibet, Volume 2: The Calm Before the Storm: 1951-1955 by MelvynGoldstein (2007) The Calm Before the Storm, history book by Itamar Singer The...
broader-based research include the work of the American anthropologist MelvynGoldstein, among others, who has produced publications on subjects such as lexical...