Kim Gutschow

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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