About the Author

P. Christiaan Klieger, Ph.D., is Research Associate at the Department of Anthropology of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. He is the author of Tibetan Nationalism (1992) and Tibet-o-Rama: Self and Other in a Tale from the Edge of Tibet (2002) and interested in Tibetans in the homeland and abroad on the theme of self-identity construction. Currently he is researching the peoples on the edge of the greater Tibetan cultural area, specifically in northern-most Myanmar (Burma) among the Rawang peoples.