Principal Investigator, CNRS researcher

Dr Stephane Gros has been conducting anthropological research in the northwestern Yunnan province since the mid-nineties, and has published a monograph entitled La Part Manquante (Société d’ethnologie, 2012) and a number of articles on issues of interethnic relations and ethnic classification, representations of ethnic minorities, poverty and categorization. He is the Principal Investigator for this European Research Council funded project on the Sino-Tibetan borderlands, and in this framework his personal research investigates aspects of kinship and social organization, as well as heritage politics and environmental discourses in this region. Besides his work in northwestern Yunnan, he conducts fieldwork in Ganzi Prefecture (Sichuan) and explores kinship patterns, the notion of house as social unit, and aspects of matrifocality.

In the framework of this current project, he has edited two volumes, first a special issue of the bilingual journal Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie, titled "Worlds in the Making: Interethnicity of the Processes of Generating Difference in Southwest China"; and a special issue of the journal Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review titled "Frontier Tibet: Trade and Boundaries of Authority in Kham." The final edited volume is in progress.

Recent publications:
Books
2012 La Part manquante. Echanges et pouvoirs chez les Drung du Yunnan (Chine) . Nanterre, Société d’ethnologie.

Edited work
2016 Special issue "Frontier Tibet: Trade and Boundaries of Authority in Kham", Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, no. 19.
2014 Special issue "Worlds in the Making: Interethnicity of the Processes of Generating Difference in Southwest China", Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie, no. 23.
2012 (with G. da Col) The G-Factor of Anthropology. HAU, Journal of Ethnographic Theory, vol. 1, no. 1..
2011 (with T. Mullaney, J. Liebold, and E. Vanden Bussche) Critical Han Studies. The History, Representation, and Identity of China’s Majority. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Articles
2014 The Bittersweet Taste of Rice. Sloping Land Conversion and the Shifting Livelihoods of the Drung in Northwest Yunnan (China), Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 34 (2) : 81-96.
2013 « Blunders in the Field: An Ethnographic Situation among the Drung people in Southwest China », in Sarah Turner (éd.), Red Stamps and Gold Stars: Fieldwork Dilemmas in Upland Socialist Asia. Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 43-60.
2012 « L’injonction à la fête. Enjeux locaux patrimoniaux d’une fête en voie de disparition (Yunnan, Chine) », dossier « Chines, l’Etat au musée », Gradhiva 16 : 22-43.
2012 « Cultes de fertilités chez les Drung du Yunnan », Moussons 19 (1) : 111-136.
2011 “商人型传教士”的新型宗教：法国天主传教士在滇西北的早期活动 (1846-1865) » (Merchant Missionaries’ New Religion. The First Steps of the French Catholic Missionaries in Northwest Yunnan, 1846-1865), 西南民族大学学报 (Journal of the Southwest Nationalities University) 1 : 46-56. (Selected for reprint in 中国社会科学文摘 Chinese Social Science Digest, 2011, no. 5)
2011 « Economic marginalization and social identity among the Drung people of Northwest Yunnan », in Jean Michaud and Tim Forsyth (eds.), Moving Mountains. Highland Livelihood and Ethnicity in China, Vietnam, and Laos. University of British Columbia Press, 28-49.

Contact:

UPR 299 Centre d’Etudes Himalayennes, CNRS
7 rue Guy Môquet
94800 Villejuif CEDEX
France
Email: sgros@vjf.cnrs.fr