Other Writing

 

Language Teaching Materials
2004 Banu Oja, Shambhu Oja, Mark Turin, and Elisabeth Uphoff. Nepali-English and English-Nepali Glossary, 2nd edition. Ithaca, NY: Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University. [107 pages]

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2004 Banu Oja, and Shambhu Oja, with editorial assistance from Mark Turin. Nepali: A Beginner’s Primer, Conversation and Grammar, 3rd edition. Ithaca, NY: Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University. [225 pages, including verbal conjugation charts, Nepali orthography and the Nepali spelling for the zones and districts of Nepal]

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2001 Mark Turin, and Rene Huysmans. Nepali Voor Beginners. ISBN 90-9014981-3. [In Dutch. Used for teaching Nepali at the India Instituut. 103 pages: 10 structured lessons, exercises, answers, grammar, lexicon]
2001 Mark Turin. Nepali Phrasebook. [Written for Where There Be Dragons. 25 pages. Map, introduction, grammar, example sentences, general vocabulary. Unpublished booklet]
Reports
2021 Mark Turin.The Digital Himalaya Project: Collection, Protection & Connection.” Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook. https://doi.org/10.21428/51bee781.028ec770.
2007 Mark Turin. “A Multitude of Mountain Voices: Language Diversity in the Himalayas.” Sustainable Mountain Development in the greater Himalayan Region, ICIMOD Newsletter 52 (Spring): 11–13.

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2006 Mark Turin. “Digitizing and Distributing Visual Footage from the Himalayas.” Nepali Aawaz 2 (19), 7 December 2006, 21.

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2005 Alan Macfarlane, Sarah Harrison, and Mark Turin. “Anthropological and Other Ancestors: Notes on Setting up a Visual Archive of the Discipline.” Anthropology News 46 (9), December 2005, 21–22.

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2003 Mark Turin. “Conference Report on Tibet and Her Neighbours.” European Bulletin of Himalayan Research (25/26): 206.

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2003 Sara Shneiderman, and Mark Turin. “Conference Report on The Agenda of Transformation: Inclusion in Nepali Democracy.” European Bulletin of Himalayan Research (24): 78–80.

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2003 Mark Turin.Mountains of Literature.” Himal South Asian 16 (7): 36–38.
2003 Mark Turin. “Adam Stainton’s Cultural Observations: A Plant Hunter in the Himalayas.” IIAS Newsletter (31): 22. ISSN 0929-8738.

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2003 Mark Turin.Digitizing and Distributing Visual Footage from the Himalayas.” SnowLion Newsletter 17 (2): 23. ISSN 1059-3691.
2003 Mark Turin. “Digitizing and Distributing Visual Resources from the Himalayas.” South Asia Newsletter: A Publication of Cornell University’s South Asia Program (Spring): 4.

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2003 Mark Turin, and Sara Shneiderman. “Returning Footage to the Himalayas.” ViewFinder: The Magazine of the British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC) (50): 10–12. ISSN 0952-4444.

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2002 Mark Turin. A Free Web Journal for the Study of the Languages of the Himalayas.” IIAS Newsletter (29): 37. ISSN 0929-8738.

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2002 Mark Turin. “Digital Himalaya: An Ethnographic Archive in the Digital Age.” In Interachive: Archival Practices and Sites in the Contemporary Art Field, edited by Beatrice von Bismarck, et al., 359–61. Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König. ISBN 3-88375-540-0.

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2002 Sara Shneiderman, and Mark Turin. “Digital Himalaya: An Ethnographic Archive in the Digital Age.” European Bulletin of Himalayan Research 20 (1): 136–41.

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2001 Sara Shneiderman, and Mark Turin.Haimendorf’s Laptop: An Ethnographic Archive in the Digital Age.” IIAS Newsletter (26): 20.
2000 Mark Turin.From Offset to Online: New Digital Media in Nepal.” IIAS Newsletter (23): 17. ISSN 0929-8738.
2000 Mark Turin. “From Cambridge to Leiden.” Sense of Place: Promoveren bij Letteren in Leiden: 32. Leiden: Lustrumcommissie.
2000 Mark Turin. Report on the 5th Himalayan Languages Symposium, 13–15 September 2000, Kathmandu. CNWS Newsletter (19): 52–53.
1999 Mark Turin. Report on the Grammatical Phenomena in Himalayan Languages Seminar, 31 August–3 September 1998, Leiden University. CNWS Newsletter (17): 46–47.
1997 Mark Turin.The Films and Photographs of Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf: The Making of an Archive.” Himalayan Research Bulletin 17 (2): 96–97. Portland, OR: Nepal Studies Association.

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1997 Mark Turin.In Memory of Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf.” Himalayan Research Bulletin 17 (2): 1–3. Portland, OR: Nepal Studies Association. ISSN 0891-4834.

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1997 René B. Huysmans, and Mark Turin.Report on the Seminar: Grammatical Phenomena in Himalayan Languages,” 11–18 June 1997, Leiden University. CNWS Newsletter (15): 70–71. ISSN 0924-6401.
1996 Mark Turin, and Alan Macfarlane. “Professor Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf: An Obituary.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 59 (3): 548–51. ISSN 0041-977X.

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1995 Mark Turin. Cultural Change in North Western Nepal.” Queens’ College Record: 30–31.
1994 Mark Turin. “Pioneer Returns.” SPW Link: The Newsletter of Schools Partnership Worldwide: 7. Ilford, UK: Arbrose Press.
Book & Film Reviews
2023. Mark Turin. Review of Motherless tongues: the insurgency of language amid wars of translation, by Vicente L. Rafael, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 29(2): 468-469.

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2023. Mark Turin. Review of Canada’s Place Names and How to Change Them, by Lauren Beck. BC Studies, 217: 124-125.

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2023. Mark Turin. Review of Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands: Culture, politics, place, by Swargajyoti Gohain. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research 59.

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2022. Mark Turin. Review of Ningwasum, Nepali Times (1138): 5.

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2022. Mark Turin. Review of The Language Warrior’s Manifesto: How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds by Anton Treuer. Anthropological Linguistics, Winter 2020, 62(4): 414-416.

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2022. Mark Turin. Review of Royal History of Sikkim: A Chronicle of the House of Namgyal as Narrated in Tibetan by Their Highnesses Chogyal Thutob Namgyal and Gyalmo Yeshe Dolma. Based upon the Preliminary Translation by Kazi Dawasamdup. Corrected, Supplemented, and Thoroughly Revised by John A. Ardussi, Anna Balikci Denjongpa, and Per K. Sørensen. HIMALAYA – The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 41(1), 140-142.

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2022. Mark Turin. Review of Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 32(1): 239-241.

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2022. Mark Turin. Review of Indigenous Repatriation Handbook prepared by Prepared by Jisgang Nika Collison, Sdaahl K̲’awaas Lucy Bell, Lou-ann Neel. The Ormsby Review. 4 January 2022.

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2021. Mark Turin. Review of To Impersonate the Supernatural: Music, Ceremony and Culture of the Bella Bella by Anton Frederik Kolstee. The Ormsby Review. 12 December 2021.

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2021. Mark Turin. Review of Materials for the Study of Gurung Pe, by Simon Strickland. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research 56.

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2020. Mark Turin. Review of Photography and Tibet, by Clare Harris. History of Photography 44 (4): 320–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2020.1968131.

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2020. Mark Turin. Review of Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun: Portraits of Everyday Life in Eight Indigenous Communities, by Paul Seesequasis. History of Photography 44 (1): 68–70. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2020.1846335.

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2020. Mark Turin. Review of Northwest Voices: Language and Culture in the Pacific Northwest, by Kristin Denham, ed. BC Studies (207): 133–34.

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2020. Mark Turin. Review of Thimi: Community and Structure of a Town (Kathmandu Valley), by Mohan Pant. Nepali Times (996): 11.
2020. Mark Turin. Review of Bridging Worlds, by Pemba Sherpa. Nepali Times (996): 11.
2019. Mark Turin. Review of White Sun [सेतो सूर्य], by Deepak Rauniyar, dir. Pacific Affairs 92 (2): 412–14.

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2018. Mark Turin. Review of Chidra, by Nadav Harel, and Arik Moran. Himalaya 38 (2): 136–37.

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2013. Mark Turin. Review of The Navel of the Demoness: Tibetan Buddhism and Civil Religion in Highland Nepal, by Charles Ramble. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research 42 (Spring–Summer): 176–81.

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2013 Mark Turin. Review of Dictionary of the Great Andamanese Language: English – Great Andamanese – Hindi, by Anvita Abbi. Indian Linguistics 74 (3–4): 149–53.

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2010. Mark Turin. “An Insider’s Guide to Helambu.” Review of Guide to the Hidden Land of the Yolmo Snow Enclosure and Its History, by Khenpo Nyima Dondrup. Nepali Times (520), 17–23 September 2010, 8.

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2010 Mark Turin. Review of Entrepreneurialism in Universities and the Knowledge Economy: Diversification and Organisational Change in European Higher Education, by Michael Shattock, ed. Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics (C-SAP) Newsletter 16 (Spring): 20–21.

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2010 Mark Turin. Review of Encompassing a Fractal World: The Energetic Female Core in Myth and Everyday Life – A Few Lessons Drawn from the Nepalese Himalaya, by Gil Daryn. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 16: 202–03.

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2009 Mark Turin. Review of Six Brothers: An English Translation, by Pema Gyatso, and Geoff Bailey, trans. Read: A Fineprint Bookclub Foundation Initiative 5: 25.

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2008 Mark Turin. Review of Tibetan Modernities, by Robert Barnett, and Ronald Schwartz. Bulletin of Tibetology 44 (1–2): 187–94.

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2008 Mark Turin. Review of Tribal Development in India: The Contemporary Debate, by Govinda Chandra Rath, ed. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 14: 902–03.

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2008 Mark Turin. Review of The Ancestral Forest: Memory, Space and Ritual Among the Kulunge Rai of Eastern Nepal, by Martino Nicoletti. Studies in Nepali History and Society 12 (2): 410–14.

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2008 Mark Turin. Review of Language Endangerment and Language Revitalization, by Tasaku Tsunoda. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 18 (1): 167–68.

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2008 Mark Turin. “Page Turner.” Review of Khangchendzonga: Sacred Summit, by Pema Wangchuk, and Mita Zulca. ECS Magazine (May): 70.

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2008. Mark Turin. “Mapping a Mosaic.” Review of Infused Ethnicities: Nepal’s Interlaced and Indivisible Social Mosaic, by Gauri Nath Rimal. Nepali Times (392), 21–27 March 2008, 12.

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2008 Mark Turin. Review of Tibetan Diary: From Birth to Death and Beyond in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal, by Geoff Childs. Contemporary South Asia 16 (1): 110–11.

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2008 Mark Turin. “The Stuff of Legend.” Review of Khangchendzonga: Sacred Summit, by Pema Wangchuk, and Mita Zulca. Read: A Fineprint Bookclub Foundation Initiative 4 (1): 29.

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2007 Mark Turin. Review of ‘If Each Comes Halfway’: Meeting Tamang Women in Nepal, by Kathryn S. March. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 13: 477–522.

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2007 Mark Turin. Review of Maoist Movement in Nepal: A Sociological Perspective, by Uddhab Prasad Pyakurel. Liberal Democracy Nepal Bulletin 2 (3).

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2007 Mark Turin. “On Archives.” Review of Creating An Archive Today, by Toshie Awaya, ed. IIAS Newsletter (43): 24.

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2007. Mark Turin. “Harka’s Maps.” Review of Nepal Atlas of Ethnic and Caste Groups, by Harka Gurung, Yogendra Gurung, and Chhabi Lal Chidi; Nepal Atlas of Language Groups, by Harka Gurung, Yogendra Gurung, and Chhabi Lal Chidid; Nepal Atlas and Statistics, by Harka Gurung, ed. Nepali Times (333), 26 January–1 February 2007, 8–9.

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2007 Mark Turin. Review of Yohlmo – Nepali – English Dictionary, by Anna Maria Hari, and Chhegu Lama. Himalayan Linguistics Review 1: 1–4.

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2006 Mark Turin. Review of Secrets of Manang, by Clint Rogers. Mountain Research and Development 26 (4): 386–87.

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2006. Mark Turin. “Ageless Wonder.” Review of Reflections: Poems, by Kesar Lall. Nepali Times (322), 10–16 November 2006, 13.

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2006. Mark Turin. “Timeless Trader.” Review of Syamukapu: The Lhasa Newars of Kalimpong and Kathmandu, by Deb Shova Kansakar Hilker. Nepali Times (319), 20–26 October 2006, 13.

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2006 Mark Turin. Review of Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance, by David and Maya Bradley, eds. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 16 (1): 148–49.

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2006 Mark Turin. “Amid the Herd, Simple Humanity.” Review of Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia, by Piers Vitebsky. Times Higher Education Supplement (1741), 5 May 2006, 25.

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2006 Mark Turin. Review of High Frontiers: Dolpo and the Changing World of Himalayan Pastoralists, by Kenneth M. Bauer. Policy Matters (14): 384–86.

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2005 Mark Turin. Review of In the Shadow of the Himalayas: Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim: A Photographic Record by John Claude White 1883–1908, by Kurt Meyer, and Pamela Deuel Meyer. Bulletin of Tibetology 41 (2): 77–79.

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2005 Mark Turin. “Beyond the Lost Horizon Clichés.” Review of A History of Nepal, by John Whelpton. Times Higher Education Supplement (1708), 9 September 2005, 28.

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2005 Mark Turin. “The Rise and Fall of Humanity’s Civil Tongues.” Review of Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World, by Nicholas Ostler. Times Higher Education Supplement (1708), 22 April 2005, 28.

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2005 Mark Turin. Review of Clear Sky, Red Earth, by Sienna Craig, and Tenzin Norbu. Nepali Times (243), 15–21 April 2005, 10.

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2004 Mark Turin. “Documenting Himalayan languages: A Critical Review Dealing with Two Recent Contributions.” Review of Chantyal Dictionary and Texts, by Michael Noonan in collaboration with Ram Prasad Bhulanja, Jag Man Chhantyal, and William Pagliuca; A Bantawa Dictionary, by Werner Winter. Studies in Nepali History and Society 9 (1): 207–13.

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2004 Mark Turin. Review of Catalogue of Lepcha Manuscripts in the Van Manen Collection, by Heleen Plaisier. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research (25/26): 232–34. (Republished in Now Daily 5 (247): 1–2.)

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2004. Mark Turin. Review of Kadampa Sites of Phempo: A Guide to Some Early Buddhist Monasteries in Central Tibet, by Ulrike and Hans-Ulrich Roesler. Nepali Times (230), 14–20 January 2005, 16.

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2004 Mark Turin. Review of Riddum: The Voice of the Ancestors, by Martino Nicoletti. Nation Weekly 1 (31): 57.

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2004 Mark Turin. Review of A Kingdom Under Siege: Nepal’s Maoist Insurgency, 1996 to 2003, by Deepak Thapa, with Bandita Sijapati. Himalaya: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies 23 (1): 75–76.

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2004 Mark Turin. Review of The Blessings of Bhutan, by Russ and Blyth Carpenter. Asian Studies Review 28 (2): 199–200.

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2004 Mark Turin. Review of Sensory Biographies: Lives and Deaths among Nepal’s Yolmo Buddhists, by Robert Desjarlais. Asian Studies Review 28 (2): 200–01.

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2004 Mark Turin. Review of Lungta 14: Aspects of Tibetan History, by Tashi Tsering, and Roberto Vitali, eds. Himalayan Research Bulletin 22 (1–2): 55–56.

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2004 Mark Turin. Review of Fluid Boundaries: Forming and Transforming Identity in Nepal, by William F. Fisher. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 10 (1): 208–09.

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2004 Mark Turin. Review of Ancestral Voices: Oral Ritual Texts and Their Social Contexts among the Mewahang Rai of Nepal, by Martin Gaenszle. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 10 (1): 200–01.

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2004 Mark Turin. Review of Visual Methods in Social Research, by Marcus Banks. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 10 (1): 178–79.

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2004. Mark Turin. “Bhutan Flower Book.” Review of A Painter’s Year in the Forests of Bhutan, by A. K. Hellum. Nepali Times (178), 9–15 January 2003, 20.

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2003 Mark Turin. Review of Ancestral Voices: Oral Ritual Texts and Their Social Contexts among the Mewahang Rai of Nepal, by Martin Gaenszle. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research (24): 132–35.

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2003 Mark Turin. Review of Post-Soviet Chaos: Violence and Dispossession in Kazakhstan, by Joma Nazpary. Inner Asia 5 (2): 195–97.
2003. Mark Turin. “Under Siege: Everything You Wanted to Know about Nepal’s Maoist Insurgency.” Review of A Kingdom Under Siege, by Deepak Thapa, with Bandita Sijapati. Nepali Times (172), 28 November–4 December 2003, 13.

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2003 Mark Turin. “Nepal Today.” Review of State of Nepal, by Kanak Mani Dixit, and Shastri Ramachandaran, eds. Biblio: A Review of Books 8 (9–10): 27–28.
2003. Mark Turin. “Lo and Behold.” Review of The Kingdom of Lo (Mustang): A Historical Study, by Ramesh K. Dhungel. Nepali Times (168), 31 October–6 November 2003, 13.

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2003 Mark Turin. Review of State of Nepal, by Kanak Mani Dixit, and Shastri Ramachandaran, eds. Contributions to Nepalese Studies 29 (2): 365–71.

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2003. Mark Turin. “The Mad Carew.” Review of Kew: The Nepal Maoist Strain, by Paul Ryder Ryan. Nepali Times (149), 13–19 June 2003, 13.

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2003. Mark Turin. “Sixteen Opinions on the State of the Nation.” Review of State of Nepal, by Kanak Mani Dixit, and Shastri Ramachandaran, eds. Nepali Times (135), 7–3 March 2003, 13.

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2002 Mark Turin. Review of Himalayan Drawings, by Robert Powell. Contributions to Nepalese Studies 29 (1): 185–92.

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2002. Mark Turin.Imaginary Documentation: A Retrospective of Artist Robert Powell’s Work Sheds Light on Ideas about Art, Reality and Ethnography in the Himalaya.” Review of Himalayan Drawings, by Robert Powell. Nepali Times (115), 11–17 October 2002, 8–9.

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2002 Mark Turin.The Ethnographic Draughtsman.” Review of Himalayan Drawings, by Robert Powell. Himal South Asian (October): 52–56.
2002. Mark Turin.Lovesick, Homesick or Simply Sick of Tibet.” Review of Mimmanahpau: Letter from a Lhasa Merchant to His Wife, by Chittadhar “Hridaya,” translated by Kesar Lall. Nepali Times (112), 20–26 September 2002, 13.

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2002. Mark Turin.Learning Nepali the Klingon Way.” Review of Talk Now! Learn Nepali CD-ROM, by EuroTalk. Nepali Times (110), 6–12 September 2002, 13.

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2002 Mark Turin. “Learn Nepali: Talk Later.” Review of Talk Now! Learn Nepali CD-ROM, by EuroTalk. IIAS Newsletter (28): 29.

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2002 Mark Turin. “A Journalist’s Encyclopædia on the Democratic Movement in Nepal.” Review of Kathmandu Spring: The People’s Movement of 1990, by Kiyoko Ogura. IIAS Newsletter (27): 40.

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2001 Mark Turin.An Activist Intellectual Unintimidated by Power.” Review of Confronting Empire: Interviews with David Barsamian, by Eqbal Ahmad. IIAS Newsletter (26): 7.
2001. Mark Turin. “This Land Is My Land … (And I’m A Woman).” Review of Property Rights of Women in Nepal, by Devi Prasad Kandel. Nepali Times (57), 24–30 August 2001, 17.

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2001. Mark Turin. “Was The Hobbit Born in Lamjung.” Review of The Throne of Stone, by John Philip Cross. Nepali Times (38), 13–19 April 2001, 17.

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2001. Mark Turin. “Banjas along the Barkhor.” Review of Newar Merchants in Lhasa, by Kesar Lall. Nepali Times (34), 16–22 March 2001, 17.

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2001 Mark Turin.Himalayan Trade From Outside In.” Review of Tibetan Border Worlds: A Geohistorical Analysis of Trade and Traders, by Wim van Spengen. IIAS Newsletter (24): 16. ISSN 0929-8738.
2001 Mark Turin. “Never Lost in Himalayan Space.” Review of Himalayan Space, by Balthasar Bickel, and Martin Gaenszle, eds. Contributions to Nepalese Studies 26 (2): 309–22.

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2001. Mark Turin.Mapping the Tibetoid World.” Review of Mapping the Tibetan World. Nepali Times (24), 5–11 January 2001, 17.
2000 Mark Turin. Review of The Thakali: A Himalayan Ethnography, by Michael Vinding. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research (18): 97–100. ISSN 0943 8254.

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2000 Mark Turin. “A Festschrift Lacking Unity.” Review of Nepal: Myths & Realities: In Commemoration of the 75th Birthday of Dr. Wolf Donner, by Ram Pratap Thapa, and Joachim Baaden, eds. The Kathmandu Post 8 (86), 14 May 2000, 4.

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2000 Mark Turin.A Nepali Language Feast.” Review of Teach Yourself Nepali, by Michael Hutt, and Abhi Subedi. IIAS Newsletter (21): 40. ISSN 0929-8738.
2000 Mark Turin. “A Mediocre Endeavour.” Review of At Home In Asia: Expatriates in Southeast Asia and Their Stories, by Harold Stephens.” The Kathmandu Post 7 (364), 27 February 2000, 4.
1999 Mark Turin. “Nothing To Be Cross About.” Review of The Call of Nepal, by J. P. Cross. Himal South Asian 12 (6): 58–59.
Journalism

2021. Sienna Craig, Maya Daurio, Daniel Kaufman, Ross Perlin, and Mark Turin.The Unequal Effects of COVID-19 on Multilingual Immigrant Communities.” RSC COVID-19 Series (97).

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2021. Sienna Craig, Maya Daurio, Daniel Kaufman, Ross Perlin, and Mark Turin.The Unequal Effects of COVID-19 on Multilingual Immigrant Communities.” Globe and Mail, 24 March 2021.

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2020. Maya Daurio, Sienna R. Craig, Daniel Kaufman, Ross Perlin, and Mark Turin. “Subversive Maps: How Digital Language Mapping Can Support Biocultural Diversity.” Langscape Magazine, 19 May 2020.
2020. Nawang Tsering Gurung, Ross Perlin, Mark Turin, Sienna R Craig, Maya Daurio, and Daniel Kaufman. “Himalayan New Yorkers Tell Stories of COVID-19.” Nepali Times (1014), 6 June 2020, 8–9.
Mark Turin. “1,000 Weeks of Nepali Times.” Nepali Times (1000), 5 March 2020, 20–21.
Mark Turin. “16,600 Pages of Nepali Times on Digital Himalaya.” Nepali Times (1000), 6 March 2020, 21.
Mark Turin. “Ownership, Control, Access & Possession in Open Access Humanities Publishing.” ScholarLedOpenAccess Week 2019, 21 October 2019.

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2019. Philippe Tortell, Margot Young, and Mark Turin. “The Importance of Personal Memory on Remembrance Day.” The Conversation Canada, 7 November 2019. (Reprinted as “Remembering Is Crucial to Our Future,” The Tyee, 8 November 2019; and in The Terrace Standard, The Summerland Review, The Trail Times, and The Stettler Independent on 9 November 2019.)
 NT Mark Turin. “Do Nepali Attitudes Need To Be Decolonised? Implications for Nepal from Canada’s Indigenous Resurgence.” Nepali Times (922), 10 August 2018, 15.

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 NT 2014. Mark Turin. “Nepal’s Recent History on PDF.” Nepali Times (700), 28 March 2014, 4.

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2013. Mark Turin. “Highway in America.” Nepali Times (640), 25 January 2013, 4.

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2011 Mark Turin. “From Shoebox to Online Archive.” ECS Nepal, February 2011, 84–87.

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2010 Mark Turin. “The Language Collector.” Cambridge Alumni Magazine (CAM) (59), Lent 2010, 22–25.

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2009. Mark Turin. “Himals in Holland.” Nepali Times (440), 27 February 2009, 13.

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2008 Mark Turin. “Living Languages and Troubled Tongues: Linguistic Diversity and Endangerment in the Himalayas.” Jetwork, October 2008, 58–63.

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2007. Mark Turin. “A Mother of Mother Tongue Education.” Nepali Times (343), 6 April 2007, 13.

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2007. Mark Turin. “Hepatitis Vaccine.” Nepali Times (337), 23 February 2007, 3. (Reprinted in The Kathmandu Post 15 (10), 28 February 2007, 5.)

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2007. Mark Turin. “My Tongue or Yours?” Nepali Times (336), 16 February 2007, 8–9. (Reprinted in Weekend Special NOW!, 10 March 2007, 1–2; “Meine Sprache oder deine?Nepal Information – Zeitschrift der Deutsch-Nepalischen Gesselschaft e.V. (99), February 2007, 47–48.)

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2006 Mark Turin. “Digital Himalaya: An Ethnographic Archive in the Digital Age (Continued).” NOW! Daily 5 (256), 2 November 2006, 2.

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2006 Mark Turin. “Digital Himalaya: An Ethnographic Archive in the Digital Age.” NOW! Daily 5 (255), 1 November 2006, 2.

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2006 Mark Turin. “Mustang: Land of Ancient Cultures and Scenic Wonders.” Himayalan Travel Mate 2 (1), 72–77.

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2006. Mark Turin. “Erna’s Joint Venture.” Nepali Times (284), 3 February 2006, 10.

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2005. Mark Turin. “Across the Hump.” Nepali Times (247), 13 May 2005, 8–9.

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2005. Mark Turin. “Looking up to the Mountains: A Centre for Himalayan Studies Located in the Plains.” Nepali Times (246), 6 May 2005, 10.

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2004 Sara Shneiderman, and Mark Turin. “Dashain in Dolakha: Cautiously Optimistic.” Nation Weekly 1 (30), 14 November 2004, 32–33.

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2004. Mark Turin. “The Centre of Things.” Nepali Times (180), 23 January 2004, 20.

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2003. Mark Turin, and Sara Shneiderman. “Yams in Boulderland: Nepalis on the Plateau.” Nepali Times (161), 5 September 2003, 8–9.

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2003. Mark Turin, and Sara Shneiderman. “Reply.” Nepali Times (152), 4 July 2003, 3.

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2003. Sara Shneiderman, and Mark Turin. “Tibet, Tibet.” Nepali Times (150), 20 June 2003, 3.

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2003. Mark Turin. “Hillary Mania in DC.” Nepali Times (148), 6 June 2003, 19.

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2003 Mark Turin. “Ministries of Silly Names.” Mare: Leids Universitair Weekblad (28), 17 April 2003, 22.
2003 Mark Turin. “Take Me to Your Jewish Leader.” Mare: Leids Universitair Weekblad (22), 6 March 2003.
2002 Mark Turin. “London Calling.” In …and? (1), March 2002, 12. ISSN 1476-9875.
2001. Mark Turin. “From below Sea Level to the Highest Mountain.” Nepali Times (68), 16 November 2001, 9.

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2001. Mark Turin. “Have You Taken Your Fooding? A White Man’s Experience of Nepali Cuisine.” Nepali Times (41), 4 May 2001, 11.

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2001. Mark Turin. “Learning about Himalayan Body Parts (through Observation Rather Than Participation).” Nepali Times (40), 27 April 2001, 17.

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2001 Mark Turin. “Learning Himalayan Body Parts.” IIAS Newsletter (24), February 2001, 18. ISSN 0929-8738.
2001. Mark Turin. “The Internet on the Roof of the World.” Nepali Times (27), 26 January 2001, 10–11.

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2001 Mark Turin, and Sara Shneiderman. “About Kathmandu (Kantipur).” Introduction on City Map: Kathmandu City, Scale 1:10,000. Shangri-La Maps, Kathmandu, Nepal. ISBN 99933-6-008-2.
2000 Mark Turin. “Mustang.” In Eyes on Nepal: Alpine Pocket Guide, 3rd edition, 252–261. Kathmandu.
2000. Mark Turin. “Why Talk?” Nepali Times (7), 30 August 2000, 3.

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2000 Mark Turin. “Buildings, Buildings Everywhere. But Why?” Face to Face: Magazine for Development (21), July–August 2000: 28–29. Kathmandu.
2000 Mark Turin.Indian English: The Last Breath of the Raj.” The Kathmandu Post 8 (133), 2 July 2000, 2. (Sunday Post Supplement).
2000 Mark Turin.What’s in a Nepali Name? Quite a Lot Actually.” The Kathmandu Post 8 (93), 21 May 2000, 1. (Sunday Post Supplement).
2000 Mark Turin.The Allure of Darjeeling.” The Kathmandu Post 8 (72), 30 April 2000, 2. (Sunday Post Supplement).
2000 Mark Turin, and Sara Shneiderman. “Rethinking Himalayan Cinema.” People’s Review: A Political and Business Weekly 9 (37), 27 April 27–3 May 2000 [15–21 Baisakh 2057], 6.
2000 Mark Turin.Please Correct.” People’s Review: A Political and Business Weekly 9 (35), 13–19 April 2000 [2–8 Baisakh 2057], 6.
2000 Mark Turin, and Sara Shneiderman. “Caravan: A Rejoinder.” Himal South Asian 13 (4): 5.
2000 Mark Turin.How to Make a Nepali Phone Call.” The Kathmandu Post 8 (51), 9 April 2000, 2. (Sunday Post Supplement).
2000 Mark Turin. “How to Write a Nepali Letter?” People’s Review: A Political and Business Weekly 9 (34), 30 March–12 April 2000 [17 Chaitra–1 Baisakh 2057], 4.
2000 Mark Turin.Dialpad.com and the Possibilities of Unlimited Guff.” The Kathmandu Post 8 (23), 12 March 2000, 2. (Sunday Post Supplement).
2000 Mark Turin.How to Write a Nepali Letter?The Kathmandu Post 7 (350), 13 February 2000, 2. (Sunday Post Supplement).
1999 Mark Turin.The Peak of Selfishness.” The Guardian (47644), 1 November 1999, 9.
1999 Mark Turin. “How to Shit in the Woods.” Earshot: The Kathmandu Alternative (3), monsoon ’99, 28.
1999 Mark Turin. “This is London.” Himal South Asian 12 (9): 54–55.

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1999 Mark Turin. “Kathmandu’s Riders in White.” The Kathmandu Post 7 (85), 15 May 15 1999, 4.
1999 Mark Turin. “Sloppy Reporting.” The Kathmandu Post 7 (29), 19 March 1999, 4.
1999 Mark Turin. “Readers’ Letters: Asia, Nepal.” RoughNews (7), January–March 1999, 6. London: Rough Guides.
1997 Mark Turin. “Letter from Nepal.” Shanghai Pictorial, December 1998, 3. ISSN 1004-2946.
1997 Mark Turin.Distant Neighbours.” Mare: Leids Universitair Weekblad (5), 1 October 1997, 8. Delft: Brouwer Offset.
1997 Mark Turin.Distant Neighbours.” Mare: Leids Universitair Weekblad (3), 17 September 1997, 8. Delft: Brouwer Offset.
1997 Mark Turin.Distant Neighbours.” Mare: Leids Universitair Weekblad (1), 3 September 1997, 8. Delft: Brouwer Offset.
1997 Mark Turin. “Essentially a Road to Nowhere.” The Kathmandu Post 6 (73), 3 May 1997, 4.
1997 Mark Turin. “Don’t Pick Your Nose.” Himal South Asia Magazine 11 (1), 4. ISSN 1012-9804.

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1997 Mark Turin. Distant Neighbours.” Mare: Leids Universitair Weekblad 7 (9), October 1997, 20. Delft: Brouwer Offset.
1997 Mark Turin.Distant Neighbours.” Mare: Leids Universitair Weekblad 5 (25), September 1997, 16. Delft: Brouwer Offset. ISSN 0166-3699.
Articles in Dutch
2006 Mark Turin. “Overleg lichtpuntje in bloedig conflict Nepal.” Leeuwarder Courant, 10 maart 2006, 5. [Interview with Mark Turin]
2002 Mark Turin. “Een lokaal perspectief op het koninklijk bloedbad.” Samachar (nieuwsbrief van de stichting ICFON) 11 (4), juli 2002, 3–6. ISSN 0924-7181.
2001 Mark Turin. “Heb je al gegeten?” Samachar (nieuwsbrief van de stichting ICFON) 11 (1), augustus 2001, 6–7. ISSN 0924-7181.
2001 Mark Turin.Lichaamstaal in de Himalaya.” Samachar (nieuwsbrief van de stichting ICFON) 10 (4), juni 2001, 1. ISSN 0924-7181.
2001 Mark Turin. “Hoe schrijf ik een brief in nepalese stijl.” Samachar (nieuwsbrief van de stichting ICFON) 10 (3), februari 2001, 2–3. ISSN 0924-7181.
2000 Mark Turin, and René B. Huysmans. “Himalaya: een oriëntalistisch sprookje.” Samachar (nieuwsbrief van de stichting ICFON) 10 (2), november 2000, 7–8. ISSN 0924-7181.
1999 Mark Turin.Het vlakke land.” 360° Album van de nederlandse ruimte: 50–57. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij de Balie. ISBN 90-6617-231-2.
Articles in Nepali
2000 Mark Turin. “Bhavan bhavan, sabaitira bhavan, tara kina?” Haka-Haki (Nepali language edition) 3 (5), Magh-Phagun 2056 [January 2000], 36–37.
1999 Mark Turin. “Thamiharu Thimika hun?” Arko Satdine (Nepali language edition) 1 (1), 16 January 1999, 10.
1998 Mark Turin. “Vismritapraya: ‘Thamiharu.’” Himal (Nepali language edition) 8 (3): 48–50. Kathmandu, Nepal: Himal.
Translations
2000 Mark Turin, trans. Sleeve notes written by Renee Jonker for Osiris Trio CD, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Trios for piano, violin and cello, op. 49 in D minor and op. 66 in C major, Cobra Records. Dutch to English translation. [COBRA 0002]
2000 Mark Turin, trans. “Toevoegen door weghalen,” by Kees Buckens. In Gerard Höweler: de wolk in de kei, 5. Amsterdam. Dutch to English translation.
Editing
2007 Sara Shneiderman and Mark Turin. Darjeeling Milestones Pocket Guide; Sikkim Milestones Pocket Guide. Gangtok: Metroprints. [Rewrote and edited]

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2006 Mark Turin, ed. “Culture, History and Language in Sikkim.” Special issue, Bulletin of Tibetology 41, no. 2.

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2005 Karna Shakya, and Linda Griffith. Tales of Kathmandu: Folktales from the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal. Kathmandu: Mandala Publications. [Copy edited by Mark Turin]
2001 Briefing Paper: A Conference About 600 Million PeopleInzet. Association for North-South Campaigns. [Served as English language advisor. 8 pages]