BOOKS:

 

Childs, Geoff. 2008. Tibetan Transitions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Fertility, Family Planning, and Demographic Change. Leiden: Brill.

 

Childs, Geoff. 2004. Tibetan Diary: From Birth to Death and Beyond in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal. Berkeley: University of California Press.

 

ARTICLES: (click hyperlinked titles for pdf versions)

Goldstein, Melvyn C., Geoff Childs, and Puchung Wangdui. 2008. “Going for Income”: A Longitudinal Analysis of Change in Farming Tibet, 1997-98 to 2006-07. Asian Survey 48(3):514-534.

Bauer, Kenneth and Geoff Childs. 2008. Demographics, Development, and the Environment in Tibetan Areas. Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies 4:1-8.

Childs, Geoff. 2008. Tibetan Fertility Transitions: Comparisons with Europe, China, and India. Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies 4:1-21.

Magnusson, Jan, S. Nagarajao, and Geoff Childs. 2008. South Indian Tibetans: Development Dynamics in the Early Stages of the Refugee Settlement Lugs zung bsam grub gling, Bylakuppe. Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies 4:1-31.

Marc Fourrier, Robert W. Sussman, Rebecca Kippen and Geoff Childs. 2008. Demographic Modeling of a Predator-Prey System and Its Implication for the Gombe Red Colobus (Procolobus Badius) Population. International Journal of Primatology 29:497-508.

Childs, Geoff and Gareth Barkin. 2006. Reproducing Identity: Using Images to Promote Pronatalism and Endogamy among Tibetan Exiles in South Asia. Visual Anthropology Review 22(2):34-52.

Childs, Geoff. 2006. Namas (mna' ma) and Nyelus (nyal bu): Marriage, Fertility, and Illegitimacy in Tibetan Societies. In Tibetan Borderlands, ed. P. Christiaan Klieger, pp.89-113. Leiden: Brill.

Childs, Geoff, Melvyn C. Goldstein, Ben Jiao and Cynthia M. Beall. 2005. Tibetan Fertility Transitions in China and South Asia. Population and Development Review 31(2):337-349.

Childs, Geoff. 2005. Methods, Meanings, and Representations in the Study of Past Tibetan Societies. Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies 1(1):1-13.

Childs, Geoff. 2005. How to Fund a Ritual: Notes on the Social Usage of the Kanjur (bKa’ –’gyur) in a Tibetan Village. Tibet Journal 30(2):41-48.

Childs, Geoff. 2004. Culture Change in the Name of Cultural Preservation. Himalaya 24(1-2):31-42, Special Issue—Tibetan Peoples and Landscapes.

Childs, Geoff. 2004. Demographic Analysis of Small Populations Using the Own-Children Method. Field Methods 16(4):379-95. 

Childs, Geoff. 2003. Polyandry and Population Growth in a Historical Tibetan Society. The History of the Family 8(3):423-444.

Childs, Geoff. 2003. Names and Nicknames in Kyirong. Tibet Journal 28(3):17-28.

Childs, Geoff. 2001. Demographic Dimensions of an Inter-Village Land Dispute in Nubri, Nepal. American Anthropologist 103(4):1096-1113.

Childs, Geoff. 2001. Old-Age Security, Religious Celibacy, and Aggregate Fertility in a Tibetan Population. Journal of Population Research 18(1):52-66.

Childs, Geoff. 2001. A Brief History of Nub-ri: Ethnic Interface, Sacred Geography, and Historical Migrations in a Himalayan Locality. Zentralasiatische Studien 31:7-29.

Childs, Geoff. 2001. Perceptions of Relative Wealth in a Tibetan Community: A Note on Research Methodology. Tibet Journal 26(2):26-38.

Childs, Geoff. 2000. Claiming the Frontier: A Note on the Incorporation of Nubri within the Borders of Nepal. Studies in Nepali History and Society 5(2):217-226.

Childs, Geoff. 2000. The 1958 sKyid grong Census: Implications for the Study of Tibetan Historical Demography. Tibet Journal 25(2): 29-41.

Childs, Geoff and Michael Walter. 2000. Tibetan Natal Horoscopes. Tibet Journal 25(1): 51-62.

Childs, Geoff. 1999. Refuge and Revitalization: Hidden Himalayan Sanctuaries (Sbas-yul) and the Preservation of Tibet’s Imperial Lineage. Acta Orientalia 60:126-158.

Childs, Geoff. 1998. A Cultural and Historical Analysis of Demographic Trends and Family Management Strategies among the Tibetans of Nubri, Nepal. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Depts. of Anthropology and Central Eurasian Studies. Indiana University, Bloomington.

Childs, Geoff. 1997. A Note on the Tibetan Origins of the Sherpa Serwa (Gser-ba) Clan. Himalayan Research Bulletin 17(2): 23-25.

Childs, Geoff. 1997. Householder Lamas and the Persistence of Tradition: Animal Sacrifice in Himalayan Buddhist Communities. In Tibetan Studies, ed. Helmut Krasser, 141-155. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.