Anthropology

The following is a revision of an article that I wrote from a visit to the Bylakuppe Tibetan Refugee camp in Karnataka, India. Abroad View magazine selected it for publication in their spring 2008 print edition.Seekers of Refuge in a Land of No Return:Conversations with Tibetan Refugees in BylakuppeIn 1959, on the heels of their [...]

Overseas Chinese in India: Thick Description, IILunch conversation with Tony Leong and Lawrence LiangThe following is a record of a conversation that I had with Tony Leong and Lawrence Liang in a high class East Asian restaurant off Cunningham Road in Bangalore. Both of my conversation subjects were of Chinese descent but were born and [...]

Overseas Chinese in India: Thick Description, I A classroom meeting with Tony Leong This following document consists of thick description notes of a classroom meeting with Tony Leong; who is a third generation Overseas Chinese that was born and raised in India. Mr. Leong came in to provide a ‘Global Migration and Refugee Studies’ class [...]

Cat living on woman’s bent back. Hard workers these Tibetans are.The following photos are from my visit to the Bylakuppe refugee camp in Karnataka Province, Southern India. I conducted interviews with refugees from the local school, community organizations, and villages which comprises the article in the above post.These photos show a modal of the Potala [...]

These photos were taken from a visit that I took to the Bylakuppe refugee camp in Southern India as a part of my Friends World Program, Long Island University studies . They show monks carrying out a very agressive, loud, though playful, debate session, school children from the refugee school, a monastery, and village children [...]