Book cover of "Among Tibetan Materialities: Materials and Material Cultures of Tibet and the Himalayas". On the image are pots with paint in different colours.

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Martin, Emma, Brox, Trine and Lange, Diana: Critical Tibetan Studies: A Turn to Materiality, in Martin, Emma, Brox, Trine and Lange, Diana (Eds.): Among Tibetan Materialities: Materials and Material Cultures of Tibet and the Himalayas, Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2025, p. 355–365. https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1522.c23991

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Emma Martin , Trine Brox , Diana Lange

Critical Tibetan Studies

A Turn to Materiality

This series of notes highlights a number of critical questions for the Tibetan studies community. It draws these from Tsering Yangzom’s meditation on Tibetan lives and objects in the preface to this volume, the story of how Among Tibetan Materialities came into being, and our reflections as editors on the limits of what we have achieved.

Keywords Tibetan studies, critical turn, materiality, collaborative practice

Emma Martin, Ph.D. (2014), SOAS (University of London), is Senior Lecturer of Museology at the University of Manchester. Her research and curation sit at the intersection of colonialism(s), Tibetan studies, museum activism, and material culture studies and moves between contemporary museum practice in Tibetan exile contexts and historical research on Tibetan materiality in British colonial archives.

Trine Brox, Ph.D. (2009), University of Copenhagen, is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Contemporary Buddhist Studies at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. She has written extensively about Tibetan worlds and specializes in contemporary Tibetan Buddhism with topics such as aesthetics, materials and materiality, consumption and waste.

Diana Lange, Ph.D. (2008), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, is Professor of History and Cultures of Central Asia at that university and a principal investigator at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at the University of Hamburg. Her research is focused on the history of knowledge and exploration, material and visual culture studies, cartography, and cultural interactions.