TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION TIBETAN BORDERLANDS --- P. CHRISTIAAN KLIEGER -- BARBARIANS AT THE BORDER AND CIVILISING PROJECTS: ANALYSING ETHNIC AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES IN THE TIBETAN CONTEXT --- SARA SHNEIDERMAN -- RETHINKING TIBETO-BURMAN: LINGUISTIC IDENTITIES AND CLASSIFICATIONS IN THE HIMALAYAN PERIPHERY --- MARK TURIN -- ARCHIVE AND THE POETICS OF 'EXOTICA TIBET' --- DIBYESH ANAND -- INSISTING ON AGREEMENT: TIBETAN LAW AND ITS DEVELOPMENT IN LADAKH --- FERNANDA PIRIE -- NAMAS (MNA' MA) AND NYELUS (NYAL BU): MARRIAGE, FERTILITY, AND ILLEGITIMACY IN TIBETAN SOCIETIES --- GEOFF CHILDS -- FROM MARGIN TO CENTRE: 'TIBET' AS A FEATURE OF GURUNG IDENTITY ERNESTINE MCHUGH -- RITUAL IN SIKKIM: EXPRESSIONS OF CULTURAL IDENTITY AND CHANGE AMONG THE LHOPOS --- ANNA BALIKCI-DENJONGPA -- "WE ARE THE LHOPO OF SIKKIM. WE DO NOT HAVE TIBETAN ORIGINS. THE TIBETANS ARE THE REFUGEES": CHANGES IN THE PERCEPTION OF BHUTIA AND TIBETAN IDENTITIES IN SIKKIM, INDIA --- VIBHA ARORA -- THE RGYAL RONG NEW YEAR: A CASE HISTORY OF CHANGING IDENTITY --- MARIELLE PRINS -- THE BALTISTAN MOVEMENT: TIBETAN HISTORY AND IDENTITY IN THE NORTHERN AREAS OF PAKISTAN --- JAN MAGNUSSON -- CHONE AND THEWU: TERRITORIALITY, LOCAL POWER, AND POLITICAL CONTROL ON THE SOUTHERN GANSU-TIBETAN FRONTIER,1880-1940 --- WIM VAN SPENGEN -- A TALE OF THE TIBETO-BURMAN 'PYGMIES' --- P. CHRISTIAAN KLIEGER -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS.