Martin Mills

Research output

Research output per year 1997 2003 2005 2007 2008 2009 2012 2013 2015 2017 2018 2021 2022

• 13 Chapter
• 12 Article
• 3 Commissioned Report
• 2 Working paper
• 7 More
  • 1 Book
  • 1 Other Report
  • 1 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
  • 1 Book/Film/Article review
  • 1 Review article
  • 1 Letter
  • 1 Other contribution

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2022

  The 'Trick of Law': The Hermeneutics of Early Buddhist Law in Tibet

  Mills, M., 18 Nov 2022, Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law. Ginsberg, T. & Schontal, B. (eds.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, p. 99-123 24 p. (Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Hermeneutics 100%
  • Tibet 90%
  • Trick 84%
  • Buddhist 65%
  • Emperor 26%
  2 Downloads (Pure)
• 2021

  Exorcising Mauss' Ghost in the Western Himalayas: Buddhist Giving as Collective Work

  Mills, M. A., 20 May 2021, Monks, Money and Morality: The Balancing Act of Contemporary Buddhism. Brumann, C., Abrahams-Kavunenko, S. & Świtek, B. (eds.). 1 ed. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 109-124 15 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Sangha 100%
  • Himalayas 94%
  • Laity 78%
  • Ghost 68%
  • Buddhist 59%

• Climate Change on the Third Pole: Causes, Processes and Consequences: A Working Paper by The Scottish Centre for Himalayan Research for the Scottish Parliament’s Cross-Party Group on Tibet

  Mills, M., Jan 2021, Scottish Parliament's Cross Party Group on Tibet. 43 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned Report

  • parliament 100%
  • cryosphere 93%
  • permafrost 46%
  • climate change 41%
  • peak flow 26%
  10 Downloads (Pure)
• 2018

  The Last Gift of the God-King: Narrating the Dalai Lama’s Resignation

  Mills, M. A., Nov 2018, Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage: Negotiating Dispossession. Bhoil, S. & Galvan-Alvarez, E. (eds.). London: Lexington Books, (Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • resignation 100%
  • god 85%
  • gift 83%
  • charter 77%
  • constitution 62%

• Mass Relocations and Nomad Settlement on the Tibetan Plateau

  Scottish Parliament's Cross-Party Group on Tibet, Mills, M. & May, S., Oct 2018, Scottish Parliament's Cross Party Group on Tibet, 13 p.

  Research output: Working paper

  Open Access

  • nomad 100%
  • resettlement 41%
  • migration 25%
  • management 17%

• Playing the Long Game? The Politics of Religious Revival in China and Tibet

  Mills, M. A., 15 Jun 2018, Asia Dialogue.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

  • Tibet 100%
  • Religious Revival 99%
  • State Policy 89%
  • China 52%
  • politics 41%
• 2017

  A strange modernity: On the contradictions of the neoliberal university

  Mills, M. A., 30 Jun 2017, ANUAC, 6, 1, p. 47-52 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

  File

  • modernity 100%
  • neoliberalism 51%
  • university 49%
  • vocabulary 43%
  5 Downloads (Pure)

• Dividing the Third Pole: Beijing's Vision for the Tibetan Plateau

  Mills, M., 21 Jun 2017, China Policy Institute: Analysis.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  File

  • Resettlement 100%
  • Mineral resources 99%
  • Water resources 85%
  • Mineral Resources 84%
  • Relocation 83%
  25 Downloads (Pure)

• Review of Subject to Death: Life and Loss in a Buddhist World, by Robert Desjarlais: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2016, 295 pp. including bibliography and indexes, 39 photographs, US$30.00 (paperback), ISBN 9780226355870

  Mills, M. A., 2017, In: South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 40, 3, p. 678-679 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
• 2016

  A Historical Atlas of Tibet

  Mills, M. A., Aug 2016, In: Mountain Research and Development. 36, 3, p. 389 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Tibet 100%
  • atlas 78%
  • Electronic Books 50%
  • United States of America 29%
• 2015

  The Dalai Lama’s secret temple goes to London

  Mills, M. A., 19 Nov 2015, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

  • Dalai Lama 100%
  • Mindfulness 86%
  • Temple 57%
  • Weekend 13%
  • Tibet 13%

• The Perils of Exchange: Karma, Kingship and Templecraft in Tibet

  Mills, M. A., May 2015, In: Cahiers d'Extême Asie . 24, p. 189-209 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Tibet 100%
  • cadre 42%
  • ambivalence 37%
  8 Downloads (Pure)

• Religious Relationships with the Environment in a Tibetan Rural Community: Interactions and Contrasts with Popular Notions of Indigenous Environmentalism

  Woodhouse, E., Mills, M. A., McGowan, P. J. K. & Milner-Gulland, E. J., Apr 2015, In: Human Ecology. 43, 2, p. 295-307 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • environmentalism 100%
  • rural communities 82%
  • Environmentalism 78%
  • Rural Communities 76%
  • Rural Population 72%
  25 Citations (Scopus)

  17 Downloads (Pure)
• 2014

  Who Belongs to Tibet? Governmental Narratives of State in the Ganden Podrang

  Mills, M. A., Apr 2014, Facing Globalization in the Himalayas: Belonging and the Politics of the Self. Toffin, G. & Pfaff-Czarnecka, J. (eds.). SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, p. 397-419 23 p. (Governance, Conflict and Civic Action; vol. 5).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Dalai Lama 100%
  • Tibet 81%
  • Religion 20%
  • Buddhist 19%
  • Tibetan Plateau 18%
  6 Downloads (Pure)
• 2013

  Self-Immolations in Tibet and China – 2013 Update: Scottish Parliament’s Cross-Party Group on Tibet, Briefing Paper No.5

  Mills, M. A. & May, S. J., 30 Sept 2013, Scottish Parliament's Cross Party Group on Tibet. 13 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned Report

  • Tibet 100%
  • parliament 66%
  • protest 64%
  • China 44%
  • Group 22%
  18 Downloads (Pure)

• The Opposite of Witchcraft: Evans-Pritchard and the Problem of the Person

  Mills, M. A., Mar 2013, In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 19, 1, p. 18-33 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Pritchard 100%
  • Witchcraft 81%
  • ethnography 64%
  • Ethnography 62%
  • Person 39%
  11 Citations (Scopus)
• 2012

  Self-Immolation Amongst Tibetans, 1998-2012

  Scottish Parliament's Cross-Party Group on Tibet & Mills, M., Jun 2012, Scottish Parliament's Cross Party Group on Tibet, 9 p.

  Research output: Working paper

  • Tibet 100%
  • South Asia 40%
  • suicide 34%
  • parliament 33%
  • protest 32%

• Ritual as History in Tibetan Divine Kingship: Notes on the Myth of the Khotanese Monks

  Mills, M. A., Feb 2012, In: History of Religions. 51, 3, p. 219-220 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Kingship 100%
  • Monks 85%
  • History 60%
  • Avalokitesvara 54%
  • Bodhisattva 41%
  3 Citations (Scopus)
• 2011

  Anthropology and Religious Studies

  Mills, M., 2011, The Sage Handbook of Social Anthropology. Gledhill, J. & Fardon, R. (eds.). Sage Publications

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Anthropology 100%
  • Religious Studies 81%
  • Religion 72%
• 2010

  Religious policy and state control in Tibet: Scottish Parliament cross-party group on Tibet, briefing paper 3

  Mills, M. & Scrimgeour, R., 2010, Scottish Parliament's Cross Party Group on Tibet. 6 p. (Scottish Parliament's Cross-Party Group on Tibet Briefing Papers; vol. 3)

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned Report

  Open Access

  File

  • Religious Policy 100%
  • Parliament 94%
  • Tibet 91%
  • Dalai Lama 74%
  • Incarnation 50%
  16 Downloads (Pure)
• 2009

  La double figure du moine: Monachisme et maisons

  Translated title of the contribution: The Two-Dimensional Monk : Monasticism and HouseholdingMills, M., 31 Dec 2009, Moines et moniales de par le monde: La vie monastique au miroir de la parenté. Herrou, A. & Krauskopff, G. (eds.). Paris, France: Editions L'Harmattan, p. 161-171 11 p. (Collection Religion et Sciences Humaines).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• This Circle of Kings: Modern Tibetan Visions of World Peace

  Mills, M., 1 Feb 2009, Boundless Worlds: An Anthropological Approach To Movement. Kirby, P. (ed.). New York, NY, USA: Berghahn Books, p. 95-114 20 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Issues of Sovereignty in the Sino-Tibetan Dispute: Briefing paper No.2 of the Scottish Parliament's Cross-Party Group on Tibet

  Mills, M. & Scottish Parliament's Cross-Party Group on Tibet, 2009, 12 p.

  Research output: Other contribution

  Open Access

  File

  • Tibet 100%
  • parliament 66%
  • sovereignty 66%
  • dispute 60%
  • Group 22%
  13 Downloads (Pure)
• 2008

  The 2008 Protests in Tibet: Main Facts & Analysis

  Mills, M., Apr 2008, Unknown Publisher. 4 p. (Scottish Parliament's Cross-Party Group on Tibet Briefing Papers; vol. 1)

  Research output: Book/Report › Other Report

  File
  10 Downloads (Pure)

• Small Shoes and Painted Faces: Possession States and Embodiment in Buddhist Ladakh

  Mills, M., 2008, Modern Ladakh: Anthropological Perspectives on Continuity and Change. Van Beek, M. & Pirie, F. (eds.). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, p. 139-152 13 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  1 Citation (Scopus)
• 2007

  Re-Assessing The Supine Demoness: Royal Buddhist Geomancy in the Srong btsan sgam po Mythology

  Mills, M., Dec 2007, In: Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies. 3, 47 p., THL #T3108.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Geomancy 100%
  • Divination 76%
  • Mythology 59%
  • Buddhist 54%
  • Tibet 50%

• Roaring Mice: A comment on Ingold and Mesoudi, Whiten and Laland (AT 23[2])

  Mills, M. A., 28 Sept 2007, Anthropology Today, 23, 5, p. 24-25 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Letter

• Whither the Straw Man? A Response to Toni Huber

  Mills, M., 2007, In: The Tibet Journal. 34, 4, p. 47-56 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2006

  The Silence in Between: Governmentality and the Academic Voice in Tibetan Diaspora Studies.

  Mills, M., 2006, Critical Journeys: The Making of Anthropologists. Critical Journeys: The Making of Anthropologists, p. 191-206 15 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Governmentality 100%
  • Diasporas 75%
  • Governance 22%
  • Moral Practice 21%
  • Monastic Community 21%
  2 Citations (Scopus)
• 2005

  Funeral Practices in Tibet.

  Mills, M., 2005, Davies, D. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Cremation. Davies, D. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Cremation, p. 398-399 1 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Living in Time’s Shadow: Pollution, Purifi cation and Fractured Temporalities in Buddhist Ladakh

  Mills, M., 2005, The Qualities of Time: Anthropological Approaches. Bloomsbury , Vol. 41. p. 349-366 18 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Temporality 100%
  • Pollution 94%
  • Buddhist 92%
  • Clifford Geertz 35%
  • Ideology 27%
• 2004

  Living in Time's Shadow: Pollution, Purification and Fractured Temporalities in Buddhist Ladakh

  Mills, M., 2004, Qualities of Time, ed. W.James & D.Mills. ASA Monograph 41. Oxford: Berg.. Qualities of Time, ed. W.James & D.Mills. ASA Monograph 41. Oxford: Berg., p. 349-366 17 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2003

  Identity, Ritual and State in Tibetan Buddhism: The Foundations of Authority in Gelukpa Monasticism

  Mills, M., 2003, RoutledgeCurzon. 440 p. (Studies in Tantric Traditions)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• This Turbulent Priest: Contesting Religious Rights and the State in the Tibetan Shugden Controversy

  Mills, M., 2003, Human Rights in Global Perspective: : Anthropological Studies of Rights, Claims and Entitlements. Wilson, R. A. & Mitchell, J. P. (eds.). Routledge, p. 54-70 16 p. (ASA Monographs ; vol. 40).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  13 Citations (Scopus)
• 2000

  Vajra-brother, Vajra-Sister: Renunciation, Individualism and the Household in Tibetan Buddhist Monasticism

  Mills, M., Mar 2000, In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 6, 1, p. 17-34 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • renunciation 100%
  • Buddhism 90%
  • Monasticism 82%
  • Renunciation 82%
  • individualism 68%
  21 Citations (Scopus)
• 1998

  In the Presence of the Teacher: Incarnate Lamas in Tibetan Buddhism

  Mills, M., 1998, In: Cosmos. p. 179-209 30 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• 1997

  The Religion of Locality: Local Area Gods and the Characterisation of Tibetan Buddhism

  Mills, M., 1997, Recent Research on Ladakh 7: Proceedings of the 7th Colloquium of the International Association for Ladakh Studies, Bonn/Sankt Augustin, 12-15th June 1995. Dodin, T. & Rather, H. (eds.). Bonn, Germany: M. Bernecker und B. Krause , p. 309-328 19 p. (Recent Research on Ladakh).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter