Theory and Method
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*Gellner, David N.Monk: "Introducion: What is the Anthropology og Buddhism About?" , in Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 21:2 1990.
*Goldstein, M.C.: "The Circulation of Estates in Tibet: Reincarnation, Land and Politics, in Journal of Asian Studies, 32 (3), 445-55.
*Huber, Toni: "Ritual Revival and Innovation at Bird Cemetery Mountain" , in Amdo Tibetans in Transition. Society and Culture in the Post-Mao Era. Leiden 2002. Brill.
*Lewis, Todd T.: "Buddhist Communities: Historical Precedents and Etnographic Paradigms" , in Stephen D. Glazier (red.): Anthropology of Religion: A Handbook.
*Obeyeskere, G.: The Great Tradition and Little in the Perspective of Sinhalese Buddhism" , in Journal of Asian Studies 22 (2).
*Ramble, C.: "How Buddhist are Buddhist communities? The construction of tradition in two lamaist villages" , in Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford. 21:2 1990.
*Reynolds, F.: "Buddhism and the Anthropologists; Some Comments Concerning Recent Works on Southeast Asia" , In history of Religions 11: 303-314.
Samuel, Geoffrey: "Tibet and the Southeast Asian highlands; rethinking the intellectual context of Tibetan studies" , in Per Kv?rne (ed.) Tibetan studies . Proceedings of 6th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies Fagernes 1992 Oslo. 1994. The Institute of Comparative Research in Human Culture.
* Tambiah, Stanley J.: Buddhism and This-Worldly Activity, in Modern Asian Studies 7 (1): 1-20.
Theravada Buddhism
Carrithers, Michael: The Forest Monks of Sri Lanka. An anthropological and Historical Study, Delhi 1993. Oxford University Press.
or:
Gombrich, Richard and Gananath Obeyesekere: Buddhism Transformed. Religious Change in Sri Lanka, Princeton 1988. Princton University Press.
Mahayana Buddhism
Goldstein, Melvyn C. and Kapstein, Matthew T.: Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity, Berkley/ Los Angeles 1998. Univerisity of California Press.
Childs, Geoff: Tibetan Diary: From Birth to Death and Beyond in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal, Berkley 2004. University of California Press.