Melvyn C Goldstein was born on February 8,1938 and is an American social anthropologist and Tibet scholar.
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Melvyn Goldstein is a professor of anthropology at Case Western Reserve University and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Melvyn Goldstein's research focuses on Tibetan society, history and contemporary politics, population studies, polyandry, studies in cultural and development ecology, economic change and cross-cultural gerontology.
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Melvyn Goldstein obtained a BA with a major in history in 1959, and an MA in history in 1960 from the University of Michigan.
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Melvyn Goldstein pursued his research in anthropology at the University of Washington and was awarded a PhD in 1968.
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Melvyn Goldstein became an associate professor in 1974 and full Professor in 1978.
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Melvyn Goldstein was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2009.
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Melvyn Goldstein has conducted research in different parts of Tibet on a range of topics including nomadic pastoralism, the impact of reforms on rural Tibet, family planning and fertility, modern Tibetan history, and socio-economic change.
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Melvyn Goldstein has conducted research in India, in northwest Nepal, in western Mongolia and in inland China.
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Melvyn Goldstein completed an NSF study investigating modernization and changing patterns of intergenerational relations in rural Tibet from 2005 to 2007.
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Melvyn Goldstein's work portrays pre-1950 Tibet as "de facto independent" as well as a feudal theocracy.
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Melvyn Goldstein married the daughter of the Tibetan scholar-official-aristocrat, Surkhang Wangchen Gelek.