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PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
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According to Wikipedia, Melvyn C. Goldstein 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.

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Hemoglobin concentration of high-altitude Tibetans and Bolivian Aymara. (1998) (272)
Ventilation and hypoxic ventilatory response of Tibetan and Aymara high altitude natives. (1997) (193)
A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State (1989) (170)
Nomads of Western Tibet: the survival of a way of life (1990) (124)
Major gene for percent of oxygen saturation of arterial hemoglobin in Tibetan highlanders. (1994) (101)
The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet and the Dalai Lama (1998) (94)
Higher offspring survival among Tibetan women with high oxygen saturation genotypes residing at 4,000 m. (2004) (93)
Stratification, Polyandry, and Family Structure in Central Tibet (1971) (87)
Tibetan Fraternal Polyandry: A Test of Sociobiological Theory (1981) (85)
Barriers to effective family planning in Nepal. (1985) (82)
Fraternal polyandry and fertility in a high Himalayan valley in Northwest Nepal (1976) (80)
Quantitative genetic analysis of arterial oxygen saturation in Tibetan highlanders. (1997) (79)
A history of modern Tibet (1989) (76)
Traditional nomadic pastoralism and ecological conservation on Tibet's Northern Plateau. (1990) (63)
Social and economic forces affecting intergenerational relations in extended families in a Third World country: a cautionary tale from South Asia. (1983) (61)
Hemoglobin concentration of pastoral nomads permanently resident at 4,850-5,450 meters in Tibet. (1987) (61)
Tibetan fertility transitions in China and South Asia. (2005) (50)
DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE IN RURAL TIBET: Problems and Adaptations (2003) (47)
Foraging Ecology of Livestock on the Tibetan Changtang: A Comparison of Three Adjacent Grazing Areas (1991) (47)
Tibetan Frontier Families: Reflections of Three Generations from D'ing-ri (1980) (47)
Change and continuity in nomadic pastoralism on the western Tibetan plateau (1991) (46)
High Altitude Hypoxia, Culture, and Human Fecundity/Fertility: A Comparative Study (1983) (45)
new perspectives on Tibetan fertility and population decline (1981) (44)
The Food Crisis (2007) (37)
Pahari and Tibetan Polyandry Revisited (1978) (33)
High-altitude Tibetan populations in the remote Himalaya: social transformation and its demographic, economic, and ecological consequences. (1981) (33)
““Going for Income”” in Village Tibet: A Longitudinal Analysis of Change and Adaptation, 1997––2007 (2008) (33)
A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye (2004) (33)
Fertility and Family Planning in Rural Tibet (2002) (33)
The changing world of Mongolia's nomads (1994) (31)
The Circulation of Estates in Tibet: Reincarnation, Land and Politics (1973) (30)
Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity (1999) (30)
High prevalence of excess fat and central fat patterning among Mongolian pastoral nomads (1992) (29)
BEIJING'S "PEOPLE FIRST" DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE FOR THE TIBET AUTONOMOUS REGION'S RURAL SECTOR—A CASE STUDY FROM THE SHIGATSE AREA (2010) (29)
Modernization and Aging in the Third and Fourth World: Views from the Rural Hinterland in Nepal (1981) (29)
The Revival Of Monastic Life In Deprung Monastery (1998) (29)
Indirect modernization and the status of the elderly in a rural Third World setting. (1982) (26)
From a mountain-rural to a plains-urban society: implications of the 1981 Nepalese Census. (1983) (25)
Household composition of the elderly in two rural villages in the People's Republic of China (1990) (25)
The Impact of China’s Reform Policy on the Nomads of Western Tibet (1989) (25)
Income and family support among rural elderly in Zhejiang Province, China (1993) (23)
The significance of latitudinality in Himalayan mountain ecosystems (1980) (23)
Serfdom and Mobility: An Examination of the Institution of “Human Lease” in Traditional Tibetan Society (1971) (23)
Nomads of western Tibet (1990) (23)
Ethnogenesis and Resource Competition Among Tibetan Refugees in South India (1975) (21)
The United States, Tibet, and the Cold War (2006) (21)
Family change, caste, and the elderly in a rural locale in Nepal (1986) (20)
Family planning in Nepal from the user's and nonuser's perspectives. (1986) (20)
Externally-Resident Daughters, Social Capital, and Support for the Elderly in Rural Tibet (2011) (20)
A History of Modern Tibet, volume 2The Calm before the Storm: 1951-1955 (2007) (20)
China's birth control policy in the Tibet Autonomous Region: myths and realities (1991) (19)
The Dalai Lama's Dilemma (1998) (18)
Release from Prison (2004) (17)
An anthropological study of the Tibetan political system (1968) (17)
On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet: The Nyemo Incident of 1969 (2009) (16)
English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan (2002) (16)
Εthnogenesis and Resource Competition among Tibetan Refugees in South India: A New Face to the Indo-Tibetan Interface (1978) (16)
Work, aging and dependency in a Sherpa population in Nepal. (1982) (15)
Basal metabolic rate and dietary seasonality among Tibetan nomads (1996) (15)
On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet (2019) (15)
Reexamining Choice, Dependency And Command In The Tibetan Social System: 'Tax Appendages' And Other Landless Serfs (1986) (14)
Essentials of Modern Literary Tibetan: A Reading Course and Reference Grammar (1991) (14)
An Entrepreneurial Transition? Development and Economic Mobility in Rural Tibet (2011) (14)
Change and Continuity in a Nomadic Pastoralism Community in the Tibet Autonomous Region, 1959-2009 (2012) (13)
Modern spoken Tibetan : Lhasa dialect (1970) (12)
The demise of the Lamaist state (1989) (12)
The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan (2001) (12)
Proximate determinants of fertility in the Kathmandu valley, Nepal: an anthropological case study (1986) (12)
Age differences in sensory and cognitive function in elderly Nepalese. (1986) (11)
The physical fitness of elderly Nepalese farmers residing in rugged mountain and flat terrain. (1985) (11)
Erratum: Hemoglobin concentration of high-altitude tibetans and Bolivian aymara (American Journal of Physical Anthropology (1998) 106 (385-400)) (1998) (9)
The calm before the storm, 1951-1955 (2009) (9)
Nomadic Pastoralists and the Traditional Political Economy - a Rejoinder to Cox (1992) (8)
TAXATION AND THE STRUCTURE OF A TIBETAN VILLAGE (2016) (8)
Tibetan-English dictionary of modern Tibetan = (1980) (7)
Hemoglobin Concentration of High-Altitude Tibetans (1998) (7)
Anthropological Fieldwork in Tibet Studying Nomadic Pastoralists on the Changtang (1987) (6)
When Brothers Share a Wife. Among Tibetans, the Good Life Relegates many Women to Spinsterhood (1987) (6)
Response to Abelson's Comment on Goldstein, Tsarong, and Beall (1984) (6)
Biological function, activity and dependency among elderly Sherpa in the Nepal Himalayas. (1982) (6)
A Tibetan Religious Geography of Nepal . By Turrell Wylie. Rome: Institute Italiano per II Medio Ed Estremo Oriente, 1970. xviii, 48 pp. Tables, Bibliography, Index. Paperback, n.p.l. (1971) (6)
Growing old in Tibet : Tradition, family and change (1997) (6)
A New Struggle (2004) (5)
On Studying Fertility at High Altitude: A Rejoinder to Hoff (1984) (5)
Tibetan Buddhism and Mass Monasticism (2011) (4)
The Snow Lion and the Dragon provides a pithy historical outline of Tibet China relations which lie at the root of the problems surrounding the Tibet (4)
Capacity for work in the tropics: Sociocultural influences on the working capacity of elderly Nepali men (1988) (3)
Emilia Ròża Sułek. Trading Caterpillar Fungus in Tibet: When Economic Boom Hits Rural Area. (2020) (3)
A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 4 (2009) (3)
An anthropological approach to the study of illness behavior in an urban community ( USA). (1983) (3)
Balancing People, Policies, and Resources in Rural Tibet (2013) (3)
Modern literary tibetan (1973) (2)
Studying Nomads on the Tibetan Plateau. (1986) (2)
Tibetan Fraternal Polyandry and Sociology: A Rejoinder to Abernethy and Fernandez (1982) (2)
The changing face of Tibet: The impact of Chinese Communist ideology on the landscape (1978) (2)
Outside instigation and the disturbances in Tibet: A rejoinder to Sharlho∗ (1993) (2)
Himalayan Buddhist villages: Environment, resources, society and religious life in Zangskar, Ladakh: edited by John Crook and Henr Osmaston University of Bristol, 1994, 886 pp (1996) (2)
Past becomes future for mongolian nomads (1993) (1)
Not for citation without permission Page 1 NOMADS OF GOLOK, QINGHAI: A REPORT (2011) (1)
Social Structure and Intracohort Variation in Physical Fitness Among Elderly Males in a Traditional Third World Society (1985) (1)
On the Political Organization of Nomadic Pastoralists in Western Tibet: A Rejoinder to Cox (1988) (1)
The United States Intervenes (2007) (1)
The remote world of Tibet's nomads (1989) (1)
A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 3: The Storm Clouds Descend, 1955-1957 (2013) (1)
Response to Basu and Gupta (1984) (1)
Tibet: An Unfinished Story . LEZLEE BROWN HALPER and STEPHAN HALPER . London: Hurst, 2013. xix + 367 pp. £20.00. ISBN 978-1-84904-359-5 (2014) (0)
Chapter 5. The Attacks on Bagor District and Nyemo County (2019) (0)
Chinese PerspectivesRadio Beijing (2007) (0)
The Return to Lhasa (2007) (0)
Escape to Tibet (2004) (0)
Tension in Lhasa (2004) (0)
An Interlude in Beijing (2004) (0)
The Dalai Lama Returns to Lhasa (2007) (0)
14. Over the Cliff (2019) (0)
First Steps toward Implementing the Seventeen-Point Agreement (2007) (0)
The Lower-to-Middle Paleolithic Transition and the Origin of Modern Man (1982) (0)
:The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier (2023) (0)
Chapter 8. Epilogue (2019) (0)
Appendix 1. The Nun’s Manifesto (2019) (0)
Conflict And The Cultural Revolution: The Nyemo Ani Incident Of 1969 (2008) (0)
Explanation of Romanization, Brackets, and Abbreviations (2019) (0)
Responsible Tourism around the World. Produced by Peter C. Bullis, Educational Communications (PO Box 351419, Los Angeles CA 90035, USA) 1992, 29 minutes, 1/2 video, $30. PAL format on request (1995) (0)
Tibet: A Political History . By Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa. [New York: Potala Publishers, 1984 (original pub. 1967, Yale University Press), 369 pp.] (1986) (0)
Ganzi County Names in Tibetan and Chinese (2019) (0)
Appendix A. Lobsang Samden’s 1952 Letter to Tsipön Shakabpa (2019) (0)
15. Final Thoughts (2019) (0)
14. The “Great Contraction” and the “Great Discontinuance” (2019) (0)
The Dalai Lama in Beijing (2007) (0)
A Brief Historical Context (2004) (0)
attached is our reply (2019) (0)
Tibet’s First Steps toward Socioeconomic Reform (2007) (0)
3. Khamba Developments in Lhasa and Saipan (2019) (0)
The Advance PLA Force Arrives in Lhasa (2007) (0)
Modern spoken Tibetan : Lhasa dialect : with written Tibetan appendix (1984) (0)
12. The Khambas, JKTS, and the CIA (2019) (0)
JAS volume 30 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (1971) (0)
A Vow of Silence (2004) (0)
10. Chushigandru after Shang Ganden Chöngor (2019) (0)
Appendix C. Agreement of the Secret Resistance Organization in India, 1954 (2019) (0)
On the State of American Shakespeare Scholarship 1950-1970: The Pelican Books Complete Shakespeare (1971) (0)
11. The Dalai Lama Visits India (2019) (0)
5. The Rise of Jenkhentsisum (2019) (0)
8. The Kashag Responds (2019) (0)
Chapter 4. Destroying the Demons and Ghosts (2019) (0)
Back Matter (1995) (0)
Chapter 7. Conclusions (2019) (0)
Childhood in Batang (2004) (0)
Negotiations with Beijing (2007) (0)
The Return to Batang (2004) (0)
A Comment by Phünwang (2004) (0)
Labeled a Local Nationalist (2004) (0)
Turning to the Dalai Lama and Removing the Sitsab (2007) (0)
7. The Mönlam Incident of 1956 and Its Aftermath (2019) (0)
Tibet in Agony: Lhasa 1959, by Jianglin Li, translated by Susan Wilf. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. vii+410 pp. US$29.95/£22.95/€27.00 (cloth). (2018) (0)
Note on Romanization (2019) (0)
Social/Cultural Anthropology: The Other Side of Polyandry: Property, Stratification, and Nonmarriage in the Nepal Himalayas. Sidney Ruth Schuler (1990) (0)
The Storm Clouds Descend, 1955-1957 (2013) (0)
Selected Glossary of Correct Tibetan Spellings (2019) (0)
With the PLA in Lhasa (2004) (0)
The Panchen Lama and the People’s Liberation Army (2007) (0)
Appendix 2. Leaflet Publishing the Text of a Speech Criticizing the Regional Party Committee (2019) (0)
Initial Contacts and Strategies (2007) (0)
Development of Integrated Education, Training and Research Program with Interdisciplinary Applications (2022) (0)
8. The Chinese Government Responds to the Uprising (2019) (0)
A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 4: In the Eye of the Storm, 1957-1959 (2019) (0)
To Lhasa Again (2004) (0)
Chapter 3: Gyenlo on the Attack (2019) (0)
On the Verge of Revolt (2004) (0)
Applied: Aging and Life Course Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Tamara K. Hareven and Kathleen J. Adams (1984) (0)
Response from Goldstein (1998) (0)
ETHNOLOGY: Fields on the Hoof: Nexus of Tibetan Nomadic Pastoralism. Robert B. Ekvall (1969) (0)
Glossary of Key Persons and Terms (2019) (0)
The Return of the Panchen Lama (2007) (0)
The Coup of Lobsang Thundrup (2004) (0)
What Constitutes “Successful Aging” in a Tibetan Context? (2021) (0)
Introduction: Tibetan Society on the Eve of Incorporation into China (2019) (0)
1. First Steps (2017) (0)
Chapter 2: Gyenlo and Nyamdre in Nyemo County (2019) (0)
The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering (1989) (0)
Appendix B. Kashag’s 1953 Edict Reforming Debts in Tibet (2019) (0)
10. Fan Ming’s “Great Expansion” (2019) (0)
The Seventeen-Point Agreement (2004) (0)
Tibetan PerspectivesContacts with the Chinese Communists (2007) (0)
national Women in South Korea's Sex Industry: A New Commodity (2008) (0)
Winds of Change (2007) (0)
Chapter 6. The Capture of the Nun (2019) (0)
Part 1. The Road to a Sino-Tibetan Agreement (2019) (0)
9. The Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region (PCTAR) (2019) (0)
The Dalai Lama Goes to Beijing (2007) (0)
Books received for review (1978) (0)
The Tibetan People’s Association (2007) (0)
Returning to Kham (2004) (0)
Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy: China's Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands. Sulmaan Wasif Kahn. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. xxiv + 189 pp. $34.95. ISBN 978-1-4696-2110-4 (2015) (0)
5. Chushigandru in Lhoka (2019) (0)
From Lhasa to Yunnan (2004) (0)
Appendix 3. The Truth about the Struggle to Seize the Power of the Tibet Daily Newspaper Office (2019) (0)
13. The Dalai Lama Returns (2019) (0)
Tibet Appeals to the United Nations (2007) (0)
Appendix A. Appeal of Thubten Nyenjik [JKTS] to the Queen of England (2019) (0)
Cowboys & Cultivators: The Chinese of Inner Mongolia. BURTON PASTERNAK and JANET W. SALAGG (1995) (0)
overlapping content calledMipham’s Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness: To Be, Not to Be or Neither by Karma Phuntsho (New York: Routledge, 2005) (2009) (0)
Conflict within the Communist Party in Tibet (2007) (0)
Factors limiting the provision of family planning services in urban Nepal. (1984) (0)
The Dragon and Snow Lion: The Tibet Question in the 20th Century (2019) (0)
Part 3. Cooperation and Change (2019) (0)
Chapter 1. The Cultural Revolution in Tibet (2019) (0)
A Year of Problems (2004) (0)
The Indian Communist Party (2004) (0)
Events in India (2007) (0)
6. Jenkhentsisum Expands and India Invites the Dalai Lama (2019) (0)
4. The Khamba Uprising Begins (2019) (0)
To the End of Revolution: The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949–1959, by Xiaoyuan Liu. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 416 pp. US$140.00/£115.00 (cloth), US$35.00/£30.00 (paper), US$34.99/£30.00 (e-book). (2022) (0)

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