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SAN2: The foundations of social life
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An anthropological study of the early detection of cancer
Shared Risk
The World Oral Literature Project
A Tibetan Woman-Lama and her Reincarnations
The Digital Himalaya Project
The Cambridge Infrastructure Resilience Group (CIRG)
REPRESENT: Community Engagement Roadmap to Improve Participant Representation in Cancer Research Early Detection
Professor Bayly and Vietnamese Cultural Knowledge
Named-Entity Recognition in Tibetan and Mongolian Newspapers
Elusive Risks: Engaging with hard-to-reach and non-interested publics in the community
Dr Diemberger and Research on Tibetan Buddhist Book Culture
Dr Barbira-Freedman and Medical Knowledge in Amazonian Peru
Dr Barbira-Freedman and Learning the Art of Amazonian Gentle Parenting
Chinggis Khan historical research project
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Barclays Bank and African Agency: a Historical Ethnography
Citizenship, Trade Unionism and Subjectivity in Buenos Aires
Communication Faultlines on the Frontlines
Entangled Lines: Railways, Resource Booms, and Transnational Politics in Mongolia
Oral History of Twentieth Century Mongolia
Transforming Political Subjectivities in Somaliland
Translingual History and Politics of 'Minzu' (Nationality) and ‘Zuqun’ (Ethnicity) in China’
Where Rising Powers Meet: China and Russia at their North Asian Border
Yastan’ (Ethnicity) and National Unity in Mongolia
The Ethics of Behavioural Economics
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Refiguring Conservation in/for ‘the Anthropocene’: the Global Lives of the Orangutan (GLO)
Resource frontiers: managing water on a trans-border Asian river
Shared Risk - ACED
Becoming Shamans to be Healed
Blowing in the Wind: Renewable energy and Ethnic Minorities in Chinese Inner Mongolia
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Communicating cultural knowledge of environmental change in collaboration with schools, local communities and NGOs
CRIC - Cultural Heritage and the Reconstruction of Identitites after Conflict 2008-2012
Criminal Capital
Environmental Knowledge in Alaska and Mexico
Gambling across the Pacific: the Fluttering Tide
Gathering and communicating climate knowledge, with particular reference to generating impact at local and national levels
Himalayan connections: melting glaciers, sacred landscapes and mobile technologies in a Changing Climate
HimalConnect: Network and Knowledge-Sharing Workshops in Nepal and Bhutan
Mongolia's Natural Resource Strategy
Mongolian Cosmopolitical Heritage: Tracing Divergent Healing Practices Across the Mongolian-Chinese Border
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Solar powered praying wheels
The Roots of Success
Tradition and Modernity in Tibet and the Himalayas
Art, media and material culture
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The Work of Art in Contemporary Japan: Inner and outer worlds of creativity
Activating Anthropology’s Archive
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Imaging Minority Culture: Photography, Digital Sharing, and Cultural Survival in Northeast China
Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation at MIASU
Relations between Korowai of Indonesian Papua and International Tourists or TV Crews
TiBET— Tibetan Book Evolution and Technology
Transforming Technologies and Buddhist Book Culture: the Introduction of Printing and Digital Text Reproduction in Buddhist Societies
Moral life and change
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Threshold Media: disclosure, disavowal, and the performance of belief in Pakistan
Situating Free Speech: European Parrhesia in Comparative perspective
Study of the International Venture Capital (VC) Industry
The Ethics of Care: Intellectual Disability in the UK
The Social Life of Achievement and Competitiveness in Vietnam and Indonesia
Vietnamese Intellectuals and their Families
“After Us, Who Will Care for Them?”: Intellectual Disability in South India
Poverty and Obligation
Religion and its Others in South Asia and the World: Communities, Debates, Freedoms
Liberal Translations
Imaginative Landscapes of Islamist Politics Across the Balkans-to-Bengal Complex
Ascriptions of Dependency in the Pacific
Ethical Life in Humanistic Buddhism
Gender and Leadership in Lebanon
God’s Deposits: Charismatic Christian financial eco-system in Ghana
Human Rights and the Chichewa Radio
Images and the moral citizen in late-socialist Vietnam.
Practices and Ethics of Care in Eating Disorder Treatment in Italy
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Jun
MIASU Seminar with Nikolay Tsyrempilov (Nazarbayev University)
Mond Seminar room, Mond Building
