Books

in press. Bendi Tso, Marnyi Gyatso, Naljor Tsering, Mark Turin and Members of the Choné Tibetan Community. Shépa: The Tibetan Oral Tradition in Choné. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers.
2012. Mark Turin. A Grammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and Their Culture. 2 vols. Vol. 5/6 of Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library: Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004155268. [996 pages]

Click here to read a review published in Himalaya, Vol. 38, No. 2, 2018.
Click here to read a review published in the European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, Vol. 42, 2013.
Click here to read a review published in the Bulletin of SOAS, London, in 2013.
Click here to read a review published in Anthropological Linguistics, Vol. 54, No. 3, Fall 2012.

2009. Christopher Evans, with Judith Pettigrew, Yarjung Kromchain Tamu, and Mark Turin. Grounding Knowledge/Walking Land: Archaeological Research and Ethno-Historical Identity in Central Nepal. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. ISBN 9781902937502. [223 pages. 116 illustrations. 12 tables]

Click here to read a review in Current World Archaeology from November 2009.
Click here to read a review in Antiquity, Vol. 85, No. 328.
Click here to read a review in Himalaya, Vol. 30, No. 1–2.

2007. Mark Turin. Linguistic Diversity and the Preservation of Endangered Languages: A Case Study from Nepal. Vol. 4/07 of Talking Points. Kathmandu, Nepal: ICIMOD. Kathmandu: ICIMOD. ISBN 9789291150557 (printed) & ISBN 9789291150748 (electronic). [42 pages. Many colour plates]

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Click here to read a Nepali-language review of the book published in Shiksak monthly.

2004. Mark Turin, with Bir Bahadur Thami. Nepali – Thami – English Dictionary. Kathmandu: Martin Chautari. ISBN 9993381241. [115 pages]

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Travel Guides
Darjeeling_Pocket 2007. Sara Shneiderman, and Mark Turin. Darjeeling Milestones Pocket Guide. Gangtok: Metroprints. ISBN 8190235818. [34 pages. Monochrome plates. Maps]

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Sikkim_Pocket 2007. Sara Shneiderman, and Mark Turin. Sikkim Milestones Pocket Guide. Gangtok: Metroprints. ISBN 8190235818. [34 pages. Monochrome plates. Maps]

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2003. Patricia East, Susan Höivik, Max Petrik, Sara Shneiderman, and Mark Turin, eds. The Gauri Shankar Trekking Area. Kathmandu: Eco Himal and Mandala Book Point. ISBN 9993310200. [124 pages. Colour and monochrome plates. Trekking map]

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Click here to read a review of the book in Spotlight.