Publications - Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften

DR. CHRISTIAN JAHODA
SCHOLARLY WORKS AND PUBLICATIONS, WORKING PAPERS,
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PUBLIC LECTURES, POSTER PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS
(revised Nov. 25, 2014)
I. Books
In preparation
Submitted for publication
Quellen zur Kulturgeschichte von Spiti und des oberen Kinnaur im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
(Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde). Vienna: Arbeitskreis für tibetische
und buddhistische Studien Universität Wien.
Socio-economic Organisation in a Border Area of Tibetan Culture—Tabo - Spiti Valley
(Himachal Pradesh, India). (Studies and Materials on Historical Western Tibet, Volume II).
Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press.
Forthcoming
with Tsering Gyalpo, Christiane Kalantari and Patrick Sutherland; with contributions by Eva
Allinger, Hubert Feiglstorfer and Kurt Tropper ’Khor chags / Khorchag / Kuojia si wenshi
daguan [Kuojia Monastery: An Overview of Its History and Culture]. (Studies and Materials on
Historical Western Tibet, Volume I). Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press (second,
revised edition).
2012
with Tsering Gyalpo, Christiane Kalantari and Patrick Sutherland; with contributions by Eva
Allinger, Hubert Feiglstorfer and Kurt Tropper ’Khor chags / Khorchag / Kuojia si wenshi
daguan [Kuojia Monastery: An Overview of Its History and Culture]. (Studies and Materials on
Historical Western Tibet, Volume I). lHa sa: Bod ljongs bod yig dpe rnying dpe skrun khang.
1997
with Diemberger, Hildegard, Pasang Wangdu and Marlies Kornfeld Feast of Miracles: The
Life and the Tradition of Bodong Chole Namgyal (1375/6-1451 A.D.) According to the Tibetan
Texts ‘Feast of Miracles’ and ‘The Lamp Illuminating the History of Bodong’. Clusone
(Bergamo): Porong Pema Chöding Editions.
II. Edited Books
In preparation
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2012
2007
with Sutherland, Patrick (eds) Oral and Festival Traditions of Historical Western Tibet: Secular
and Religious Performance in Spiti, Upper Kinnaur and Purang. (Studies and Materials on
Historical Western Tibet, Volume IV).
with Ebert, Jorinde, Grenet, Frantz, Lang, Nina and Vergati, Anne (eds) Proceedings of the
Third International SEECHAC Colloquium, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 25-27 Nov.
with Kalantari, Christiane (eds) Early West Tibetan Buddhist Monuments: Architecture, Art,
History and Texts. (Studies and Materials on Historical Western Tibet, Volume III).
with Kiliánová, Gabriela and Michaela Ferencová (eds) Ritual, Conflict and Consensus: Case
Studies from Asia and Europe. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press.
with Klimburg-Salter, Deborah E. and Kurt Tropper (eds) Text, Image and Song in
Transdisciplinary Dialogue (Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003. Brill’s
Tibetan Studies Library, Volume 10/7). Leiden: Brill.
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III. MA Thesis, Doctoral Thesis
2003
Sozio-ökonomische Organisation in einem Grenzgebiet tibetischer Kultur: Tabo - Spiti Tal
(Himachal Pradesh, Indien) – Geschichte und Gegenwart. Ein Beitrag zum Konzept der ‘peasant
societies’. Doctoral thesis, University of Vienna, 2 vols, 473 pp.
1994
Heiratsmuster ausgewählter Gesellschaften tibetischer Kultur und Sprache, mit besonderer
Berücksichtigung der Polyandrie und Prinz Peters Forschungsbeitrag. MA thesis, University of
Vienna, 525 pp.
IV. Articles and Book Chapters
Submitted for publication
Imparting and (re-)confirming order to the world: authoritative speech traditions and sociopolitical assemblies in Spiti, Upper Kinnaur and Purang in the past and present. In: Oral
Tradition (special issue on Words of Truth: Authority and Agency in Ritual and Legal
Speeches in the Himalayas).
2012
Introduction [English version of “Spyi bshad mdor bsdus” by Tsering Gyalpo]. In: Tsering
Gyalpo, Christian Jahoda, Christiane Kalantari and Patrick Sutherland; with contributions by
Eva Allinger, Hubert Feiglstorfer and Kurt Tropper ’Khor chags / Khorchag / Kuojia si wenshi
daguan [Kuojia Monastery: An Overview of Its History and Culture]. lHa sa: Bod ljongs bod
yig dpe rnying dpe skrun khang, 6–45.
2012
History. In: Tsering Gyalpo, Christian Jahoda, Christiane Kalantari and Patrick Sutherland;
with contributions by Eva Allinger, Hubert Feiglstorfer and Kurt Tropper ’Khor chags /
Khorchag / Kuojia si wenshi daguan [Kuojia Monastery: An Overview of Its History and
Culture]. lHa sa: Bod ljongs bod yig dpe rnying dpe skrun khang, 46–66.
2012
with Hubert Feiglstorfer: Sacred site. In: Tsering Gyalpo, Christian Jahoda, Christiane
Kalantari and Patrick Sutherland; with contributions by Eva Allinger, Hubert Feiglstorfer and
Kurt Tropper ’Khor chags / Khorchag / Kuojia si wenshi daguan [Kuojia Monastery: An
Overview of Its History and Culture]. lHa sa: Bod ljongs bod yig dpe rnying dpe skrun
khang, 70–91.
2012
with Christiane Kalantari: Protectors. In: Tsering Gyalpo, Christian Jahoda, Christiane
Kalantari and Patrick Sutherland; with contributions by Eva Allinger, Hubert Feiglstorfer and
Kurt Tropper ’Khor chags / Khorchag / Kuojia si wenshi daguan [Kuojia Monastery: An
Overview of Its History and Culture]. lHa sa: Bod ljongs bod yig dpe rnying dpe skrun
khang, 118–143.
2012
Annual festivals [English version of “Nam mthong dus ston gyi skor” by Tsering Gyalpo]. In:
Tsering Gyalpo, Christian Jahoda, Christiane Kalantari and Patrick Sutherland; with
contributions by Eva Allinger, Hubert Feiglstorfer and Kurt Tropper ’Khor chags / Khorchag /
Kuojia si wenshi daguan [Kuojia Monastery: An Overview of Its History and Culture]. lHa sa:
Bod ljongs bod yig dpe rnying dpe skrun khang, 212–253.
2012
Performances [English version of “’Khor chags yul gyi lha mo ’khrab gzhung skor” by
Tsering Gyalpo]. In: Tsering Gyalpo, Christian Jahoda, Christiane Kalantari and Patrick
Sutherland; with contributions by Eva Allinger, Hubert Feiglstorfer and Kurt Tropper ’Khor
chags / Khorchag / Kuojia si wenshi daguan [Kuojia Monastery: An Overview of Its History
and Culture]. lHa sa: Bod ljongs bod yig dpe rnying dpe skrun khang, 254–275.
2012
The new Buddha Maitreya statue [English version of “gSar du bzhengs pa’i rgyal ba byams
pa’i sku skor” by Tsering Gyalpo]. In: Tsering Gyalpo, Christian Jahoda, Christiane Kalantari
and Patrick Sutherland; with contributions by Eva Allinger, Hubert Feiglstorfer and Kurt
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Tropper ’Khor chags / Khorchag / Kuojia si wenshi daguan [Kuojia Monastery: An Overview
of Its History and Culture]. lHa sa: Bod ljongs bod yig dpe rnying dpe skrun khang, 276–
283.
2012
Rituals between conflict and consensus: case studies of village festivals in Upper Kinnaur
and Western Tibet. In: Kiliánová, Gabriela, Christian Jahoda and Michaela Ferencová (eds)
Ritual, Conflict and Consensus: Case Studies from Asia and Europe. Vienna: Austrian
Academy of Sciences Press, 31–49.
2011
Úvahy o význame niektorých buddhistických dedinských slávností v oblastiach horný
Kinnaur a západný Tibet. [Reflections on the meaning of certain Buddhist village festivals in
Upper Kinnaur and Western Tibet]. In: Slovenský národopis [Slovak Ethnology], 59 (4), 385–
400.
2011
Das Scherken Fest in Pooh im oberen Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh, Indien, 2009. In:
Lechleitner, Gerda and Christian Liebl (eds) Jahrbuch des Phonogrammarchivs der
Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2. Göttingen: Cuvillier, 9–41.
2010
with Papa-Kalantari, Christiane: Early Buddhist culture and ideology in Western Tibet: a new
perspective on a stone stele in Cogro, Purang. In: Orientations, 41 (4), 61–68.
2009
Spiti and Ladakh in the 17 -19 centuries: views from the periphery. In: Bray, John and
Elena De Rossi Filibeck (eds) Mountains, Monasteries and Mosques. Recent Research on
Ladakh and the Western Himalaya. Supplement to Rivista degli Studi Orientali, 80 (2), 45–59.
2009
with Papa-Kalantari, Christiane: Eine frühe buddhistische Steinstele (rdo ring) in sPu rang,
Westtibet: eine Neuuntersuchung. Bericht einer österreichisch-tibetischen Feldforschung.
In: Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques, LXIII (2), 349–400.
2008
Political space and socio-economic organisation in the Lower Spiti Valley (early nineteenth
to late twentieth century). In: Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, no.
4 (December 2008) (In the Shadow of the Leaping Dragon: Demography, Development, and
the Environment in Tibetan Areas. Proceedings of the Eleventh Seminar of the International
Association for Tibetan Studies, Bonn / Königswinter, 2006): 1–34.
(http://www.thlib.org?tid=T5559; http://www.jiats.org/)
2007
Archival exploration of Western Tibet or what has remained of Francke’s and Shuttleworth’s
Antiquities of Indian Tibet, Vol. IV? In: Kellner, Birgit, Helmut Krasser, Horst Lasic and Torsten
Much (eds) Pramāṇakīrtiḥ. Papers dedicated to Ernst Steinkellner on the occasion of his 70th
birthday. Part 1. (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 70.1), Vienna: Arbeitskreis für tibetische und buddhistische Studien Universität Wien, 361–394.
2007
Socio-economic organisation of village communities and monasteries in Spiti, H.P., India:
the case of a religious administrative unit (chos gzhis). In: Heller, Amy and Giacomella
Orofino (eds) Discoveries in Western Tibet and the Western Himalayas. Essays on History,
Literature, Archeology and Art (Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003). Leiden:
Brill, 215–240.
2007
Documenting oral traditions: methodological reflections. In: Klimburg-Salter, Deborah E.,
Kurt Tropper and Christian Jahoda (eds) Text, Image and Song in Transdisciplinary Dialogue
(Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003). Leiden: Brill, 229–233.
2007
Tibetischsprachige mündliche Überlieferung in Spiti und im oberen Kinnaur, Himachal
Pradesh, Indien. In: Lechleitner, Gerda and Julia Ahamer (eds) Um-Feld-Forschung.
Erfahrungen, Erlebnisse, Ergebnisse. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 121–133.
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2006
Bemerkungen zur Tradition einer weiblichen Schutzgottheit (srung ma) in Tabo (Spiti Tal,
Himachal Pradesh, Indien). In: Gingrich, Andre and Guntram Hazod (eds) Der Rand und die
Mitte. Beiträge zur Sozialanthropologie und Kulturgeschichte Tibets und des Himalaya.
Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 11–54.
1999
Buddhistische Kunst im indo-tibetischen Raum. Ergebnisse eines österreichischen
Forschungsprojektes. In: Parnass, 19 (4): 94–100.
V. Reviews
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2008
“Brinker, Helmut, Secrets of the Sacred: Empowering Buddhist Images in Clear, in Code, and
in Cache. Lawrence: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas/Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 2011.“ In: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, 22 (1): 120–121.
“P.K. Sørensen and G. Hazod, in cooperation with Tsering Gyalbo: Thundering Falcon. An
Inquiry into the History and Cult of Khra-’brug. Tibet’s First Buddhist Temple. Vienna:
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2005”. In: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens /
Vienna Journal for South Asian Studies, LI (2007–2008): 239–241.
2004
“Wim van Spengen: Tibetan Border Worlds. A Geohistorical Analysis of Trade and Traders.
London – New York: Kegan Paul International, 2000”. In: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde
Südasiens / Vienna Journal for South Asian Studies, XLVIII (2004): 240–241.
2002
“Anne-Marie Blondeau (ed.): Tibetan Mountain Deities, Their Cults and Representations.
Papers Presented at a Panel of the 7th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan
Studies, Graz 1995. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 1998”. In: Zeitschrift der
Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 152 (1): 234–239.
VI. Working Papers
2009
with Tshe ring rgyal po and Papa-Kalantari, Christiane The Buddhist Monuments of Khartse
Valley, Western Tibet. Austrian Academy of Sciences / AAS Working Papers in Social
Anthropology 2009, Volume 9: 1–28. (http://epub.oeaw.ac.at/wpsa9)
VII. Conference Papers and Public Lectures
[15./16.12.2014]
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Systems of land ownership in Spiti and Upper Kinnaur (19 -20 c.). Conference on property
in Tibetan societies, Paris, 15-16 Dec. 2014.
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19.07.2014
with Kalantari, Christiane: Kingship in Western Tibet in the 10 and 11 centuries.
Conference Ritual + Narrative + Kingship ÷ Tibet + Surrounding Cultural Area, 17-19 July
2014, Kingship and Religion in Tibet Research Group, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München.
13.06.2013
Geschichte und Volkskultur von Khorchag, Purang, Autonome Region Tibet, VR China.
(Book presentation: Tsering Gyalpo, C. Jahoda, C. Kalantari, P. Sutherland et al. ’Khor chags /
Khorchag / Kuojia si wenshi daguan [Kuojia Monastery: An Overview of Its History and
Culture]. lHa sa: Bod ljongs bod yig dpe rnying dpe skrun khang, 2012.) Institute for Social
Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.
17.01.2013
Cultural heritage and (un)broken traditions in areas of historical Western Tibet (mNga’ ris
skor gsum): the example of Khorchag in Purang. SEECHAC conférence, Musée Cernuschi,
Paris.
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26.11.2011
Authoritative speech traditions and socio-political assemblies in Spiti, Upper Kinnaur and
Purang in the past and present. Conference Authoritative speech in the Himalayan
region/Paroles d’autorité dans l’aire himalayenne, Maison Suger, Paris, 25-26 November
2011 (organisers: Marie Lecomte-Tilouine and Anne de Sales, CNRS).
11.10.2011
Festival and ritual traditions in key religio-political centres of Historical Western Tibet
(mNga’ ris skor gsum). SEECHAC International Colloquium, Museo Nazionale d’Arte
Orientale ‘Giuseppe Tucci’, Rome, October 10th–12th, 2011.
19.08.2010
Oral and festival traditions of historical Western Tibet: the case of the Sherken Festival in
Pooh (sPu), Upper Kinnaur. 12th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan
Studies, Vancouver.
06.07.2010
with Feiglstorfer, Hubert: The Buddhist temple complex of Nyarma, Ladakh: new findings
from recent architectural and archival research. 20th Conference of the European
Association of South Asian Archaeologists (EASAA), Vienna, University of Vienna.
17.04.2010
Rituals between conflict and consensus: case studies of village festivals in Upper Kinnaur
and Western Tibet. Ritual, Conflict and Consensus: Comparing Case Studies in Asia and
Europe. An Anthropological Atelier by the Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of
Sciences, and the Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, April
15th-18th 2010, House of Slovak Writers, Budmerice Castle, Budmerice, Slovakia.
17.07.2009
Oral and festival traditions of Western Tibet and their historical relationship with textual
materials: some comparative perspectives. Fourteenth Colloquium, International
Association for Ladakh Studies, Leh/Ladakh.
02.07.2009
Introduction: FWF Research Project ‘Oral and Festival Traditions of Western Tibet: Processes
of Cultural Memory and Renewal’. Veronika Hein, ISA International Guest Lecture, Oral and
Festival Traditions of Western Tibet: A first look at some counting and alphabet songs from
Spiti. Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences.
23.04.2009
Mündliche Überlieferungen und Feste Westtibets: Prozesse kultureller Erinnerung und
Erneuerung. 5. Tage der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie 23. und 24. April 2009,
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna.
14.10.2008
rDo rje chen mo, a female protective deity, and her historical relationship with the royal
dynasty of the ancient West Tibetan kingdom. Beijing Seminar on Tibetan Studies, Beijing.
29.08.2008
Religious diversity in the Western Himalayas and in Western Tibet: Tibetan Buddhism, Bon
religion and ‘local’ religious traditions and the function of spirit possession / trancemediums. 10th biennial conference EASA 2008 (Panel W064: Interpreting Religious
Diversity: Conversion, Syncretism and Religious Practice), Ljubljana.
09.09.2007
Spiti and Ladakh in the 17 -19 centuries: views from the periphery. Thirteenth
Colloquium, International Association for Ladakh Studies, Rome.
27.04.2007
Vom Nutzen und der Benützung von Archiven: Erfahrungen in Europa und China. 3. Tage der
Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie 26. und 27. April 2007, Department of Social and Cultural
Anthropology, University of Vienna.
30.08.2006
Political space and socio-economic organisation in the lower Spiti and upper Sutlej valleys
(17th to 20th century). 11th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies,
Bonn.
11.10.2004
Schneeland Tibet: Mythos und Wirklichkeit. Vom Leben auf dem Dach der Welt.
Volkshochschule Floridsdorf: Schwerpunkt Tibet (University meets Public), Vienna.
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22.01.2004
Oraltradition in Spiti und im oberen Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh, Indien: Trancemedien und
der Kult von Lokal- und Schutzgottheiten buddhistischer Tempel. Phonogrammarchiv der
Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften/Research Sound Archive, Austrian Academy
of Sciences, Vienna.
12.09.2003
Socio-economic organisation of village communities and monasteries in Spiti and Upper
Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh, India. 10th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan
Studies, Oxford.
08.09.2003
Methodological reflections: The contributions of cultural anthropology and linguistics to
the documentation of oral traditions. 10th Seminar of the International Association for
Tibetan Studies, Oxford.
21.05.2003
Peasant communities of Spiti and Upper Kinnaur and the role of Tibetan monastic
Buddhism: a historical overview. Oriental Institute, Oxford University.
16.05.2000
Lo-chen Rin-chen-bzang-po’s presence in lower Spiti and upper Kinnaur: historical and
present perspectives. Université de Paris-X, Nanterre (Laboratoire d’éthnologie et de
sociologie comparative).
03.12.1999
Remarks on the tradition and function of the Tabo village srung-ma. Workshop on Myth,
Territoriality and Ritual in Tibetan Areas. Hotel Springer Schlößl, Vienna.
VIII. Poster presentations
08.06.2011
with Feiglstorfer, Hubert and Kalantari, Christiane: FWF Research Project P-21806-G19
“Society, Power and Religion in pre-modern Western Tibet” and P-20637-G15 “Oral and
festival traditions of Western Tibet”. International evaluation team’s on-site visit, Institute
for Social Anthropology, Centre for Studies in Asian Cultures and Social Anthropology,
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.
IX. Conferences and Workshops (Organiser and participant)
25.11.-27.11.2013
Third International SEECHAC Colloquium “Interaction in the Himalayas and Central Asia:
Processes of transfer, translation and transformation in art, archaeology, religion and polity
from antiquity to the present day”, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.
03.04.-29.04.2011
Workshop “History, art history and architecture of the Buddhist Monuments of ’Khor chags,
Western Tibet”. FWF Research Project P-21806-G19 “Society, Power and Religion in premodern Western Tibet”, Institute for Social Anthropology, Centre for Studies in Asian
Cultures and Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.
22.11.-17.12.2010
Workshop “History, art history and architecture of the Buddhist Monuments of ’Khor chags
Village and mKhar rtse Valley”. FWF Research Project P-21806-G19 “Society, Power and
Religion in pre-modern Western Tibet”, Institute for Social Anthropology, Centre for Studies
in Asian Cultures and Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.
17.10.-26.10.2008
Workshop “Western Tibetan Culture”. FWF Research Project P-20637-G15 “Oral and festival
traditions of Western Tibet”, Hotel Tibet, Beijing.
01.05.-04.05.2008
Kick-off workshop FWF Research Project P-20637-G15 “Oral and festival traditions of
Western Tibet”. Forschungsstelle Sozialanthropologie / Social Anthropology Research Unit,
Centre for Studies in Asian Cultures and Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of
Sciences, Vienna.
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