Charles Ramble

Charles Ramble est un ethnologue et tibétologue spécialiste de la culture tibétaine. Il a participé à plusieurs programmes de recherche américain et allemand concernant certaines régions du Tibet. Charles Ramble a été lecturer en Etudes Tibétaines et Himalayiennes à l'Université d'Oxford. Il est depuis 2009 directeur d'études à l'École pratique des hautes études (Sorbonne, Paris), où il détient la chaire d'histoire et philologie tibétaines. Il est le président de l'International Association for Tibetan Studies, dont il a organisé à Oxford le dixième séminaire en 2003.

Œuvres

• Charles Ramble, V.C Dunham, Geshe G.Jinpa, photos de Thomas L. Kelly Sacred Landscape and Pilgrimage in Tibet In Search of the Lost Kingdom of Bon [+ DVD] Abbeville Press, 2005 ISBN : 0789208563
• Ouvrage collectif dirigé par Katia Buffetrille et Charles Ramble : Tibétains 1959-1999 40 ans de colonisation Édition Autrement 1998, ISBN 2-86260-822-X.

• 1980 "Recent books on Tibet and the Buddhist Himalaya", Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 11(2)
• 1982 "Status and death: mortuary rites and attitudes to the body in a Tibetan village", Kailash 9, 333-59
• 1983 "The founding of a Tibetan village: the popular transformation of history", Kailash10(3-4), 267-90
• 1985 "Buddhist people of the north Nepal borderland", in S. J. Locke (ed.): The Buddhist Heritage of Nepal, Kathmandu
• 1987a (with M. Vinding) "The 'Bem-chag village record and the early history of Mustang District", Kailash 13(1-2), 5-48
• 1987b "The Muktinath Yartung: a Tibetan harvest festival in its social and historical context", L'Ethnographie 83(100-101), 221-25
• 1990a "The headman as a force for cultural conservation: the case of the Tepas of Nepal", in N.K. Rustomji and C. Ramble (eds): Himalayan Environment and Culture
• 1990b "How Buddhist are Buddhist communities? The construction of tradition in two lamaist villages", Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 21(2), 185-97
• 1992-93 "A ritual of political unity in an old Nepalese kingdom", Ancient Nepal nos. 130-133
• 1993a "Rule by play in southern Mustang", in C. Ramble and M. Brauen (eds): Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalaya, Zürich
• 1993b *"Reflections of a plant-hunter in Nepal: an interview with Dr. Tirtha Bahadur Shrestha", European Bulletin of Himalayan Research no. 5
• 1993c "Whither, indeed, the tsampa-eaters?" Himal September-October 1993
• 1994a "Civic authority and agrarian management in southern Mustang: remarks on a nineteenth-century land-tax register from Kagbeni", Ancient Nepal no. 135
• 1994b "Writings in Monochrome", Himal July-September 1994
• 1995 "Gaining ground: representations of territory in Bon and Tibetan popular tradition. The Tibet Journal Spring 1995
• 1995 (with C. Seeber) "Dead and living settlements in the Shod-yul of Mustang", Ancient Nepal no. 138
• 1996a "Patterns of places", in Anne-Marie Blondeau and E. Steinkellner (eds): Reflections of the Mountain: essays on the history and social meaning of the mountain cult in Tibet and the Himalaya, Wien, Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• 1996b "Mustang, the ancient kingdom of Lo", Asian Art and Culture 9(3), Fall 1996 (special issue on the Himalayas)
• 1997a "The Creation of the Bon Mountain of Kongpo", in A.W. Macdonald (ed.): Mandala and Landscape, Delhi: D.K. Printworld
• 1997b "Tibetan pride of place; or, why Nepal's Bhotes are not an ethnic group", in D. Gellner and J. Pfaff (eds): Politics and Ethnicity in a Hindu Kingdom, London: Harwood
• 1997c "Se: notes on the distribution of an archaic ethnonym in Tibet and Nepal", in Samten G. Karmay and Ph. Sagant (eds): Les Habitants du Toit du Monde, Paris: Société d'Ethnologie, Nanterre
• 1998a "The classification of territorial divinities in Pagan and Buddhist rituals of South Mustang", in A.-M. Blondeau (ed.): Tibetan Mountain Deities, their Cults and Representations, Wien: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• 1998b (with John Harrison) "Houses and households in Southern Mustang", Ancient Nepal no. 140, 23-37
• 1998c (with John Harrison) "Watermills in Mustang: notes on architecture, function and management", Ancient Nepal no. 140, 39-52
• 1998d "The Mustang villages of Kag, Te and Khyinga: an introduction to history, ethnicity and the idea of place", Beiträge zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Archäologie, Band 18, Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 147-82
• 1999 "A literary biography of Michael Aris", European Bulletin of Himalayan Research 17, 103-16
• 2000 The secular surroundings of a Bonpo ceremony: games, popular rituals and economic structures in the mDos-rgyab of Klu-brag monastery (Nepal). In S. Karmay and Y. Nagano (eds) New Horizons in Bon Studies. Proceedings of a conference held in Osaka, August 1999. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology.
• 2001a Art without artists: Robert Powell’s Mustang collection. In M. Oppitz (ed.), Robert Powell: Himalayan Drawings. Zurich: Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich.
• 2001b (With P. Boyer) Cognitive templates for religious concepts: cross-cultural evidence for recall of counter-intuitive representations. Cognitive Science 25 (4).
• 2002a The Victory Song of Porong. In K. Buffetrille and H. Diemberger (eds), Territory and Identity in Tibet and the Himalayas. Leiden: Brill.
• 2002b Temporal disjunction and collectivity in Mustang, Nepal. Current Anthropology 43, supplement, August-October.
• 2003a (With M. Kind) Bonpo monasteries and temples of the Himalayan region. In S.G. Karmay and Y. Nagano, eds, A Survey of Bonpo Monasteries in the Himalaya. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology.
• 2003b (With N. Gutschow) Up and down, inside and out: notions of space and territory in Tibetan villages of Mustang, Nepal. N. Gutschow, A. Michaels and C. Ramble (eds) Sacred Landscape in the Himalaya. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Liens externes

http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/html/staff/isa/cramble.html

Notes et références

• Portail du Tibet
• Portail de la sociologie