Author Biography
Martin Saxer was a Clarendon scholar at Oxford and received his doctorate in 2010. He conducted extensive fieldwork in Siberia, Tibet and Nepal and published the book Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine: The Creation of an Industry and the Moral Economy of Tibetanness (Berghahn 2013). He currently leads a 5-year research project funded by an ERC Starting Grant under the title Remoteness & Connectivity: Highland Asia in the World.
Martin also directed two feature length documentary films and runs the visual ethnography blog theotherimage.com.
Abstract
Martin Saxer was a Clarendon scholar at Oxford and received his doctorate in 2010. He conducted extensive fieldwork in Siberia, Tibet and Nepal. He currently leads a 5-year research project under the title ‘Remoteness & Connectivity: Highland Asia in the World’, funded by the European Research Council. Martin also directed two feature length documentary films and runs the visual ethnography blog theotherimage.com.
Acknowledgements
Research for this article was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore, as well as a Marie Curie Fellowship (Neighouring China, 2013–2015) and an ERC Starting Grant (‘Highland Connections’, 2015-2020). The author would like to thank these institutions for their generous support.
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Recommended Citation
Saxer, Martin. 2016. Pathways: A Concept, Field Site and Methodological Approach to Study Remoteness and Connectivity. HIMALAYA 36(2).
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