Franz K Huber

Biographic Data

ID218545
NAMEFranz K Huber
GIVEN NAMESFranz K
FAMILY NAMEHuber
SIGNATUREHUBER F K
AFFILIATIONSETH Zurich
ORCID0000-0002-4632-8939
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS60
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX4

  • Condensing Life Substances within the House

    Elizabeth Hsu, Elisabeth Hsu et al.ARTICLEAsiatische Studien – Études…2017

    The Shuhi of Muli County, Sichuan Province, are one of multiple ethnic groups inhabiting the river gorges of the Qinghai-Gansu-Sichuan corridor between the Tibetan plateau and the Chinese lowlands. The Shuhi have grown paddy rice since times immemorial at an unusually high altitude (ca. 2,300 m above sea level). This article aims to explain this conundrum not merely through the ecology (as is common among Tibetan area specialists), but by researc…

  • The Shuhi House between Reformist China and Revivalist Tibet

    Franz K Huber, Caroline S Weckerle et al.ARTICLEAsiatische Studien – Études…2017

    The Shuhi of Muli County, Sichuan province, inhabit the Tibetan-Chinese borderlands. In this paper, we focus on Shuhi kinship practices that accord the house the importance it appears to have for the Shuhi themselves. We demonstrate that the Shuhi engage in kinship practices that are ‘hearth-oriented’ (Hsu 1998b: 67–99) in a dynamic process affected by the current political economic changes in reformist China and religious revivalism in Tibet. Th…

  • Plant Names as Traces of the Past in Shuiluo Valley, China

    Open AccessKatia Chirkova, Franz K Huber et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnobiology2016

    This study presents results of interdisciplinary fieldwork in Southwest China by a team of linguists and ethnobotanists. It is based on a comparative analysis of 70 common plant names in five Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in Shuiluo Valley. The discussion focuses on (a) names for locally important field crops and (b) plant names that are shared between two or more languages. We make a preliminary stratification of cognates and loanwords; we adva…

  • Diversification of Livelihoods in a Society in Transition

    Franz K Huber, Yongping Yang et al.ARTICLESociety & Natural Resources2014Cited by: 2References: 10

    In recent years, large development and market integration programs have altered the socioeconomic structures and cultural identity of rural communities and ethnic minorities in Southwest China and influenced the management of natural resources. This article analyzes livelihood strategies in the Shuiluo Valley, a remote area of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands. Agricultural activities and the management of natural resources were studied in five villag…

  • Livelihood and Conservation Aspects of Non-wood Forest Product Collection in the Shaxi Valley, Southwest China1

    Open AccessFranz K Huber, Robert Ineichen et al.ARTICLEEconomic Botany2010Cited by: 17References: 31

  • Mao's heritage

    Open AccessCaroline S Weckerle, Robert Ineichen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnopharmacology2009

  • Plant Knowledge of the Shuhi in the Hengduan Mountains, Southwest China

    Open AccessCaroline S Weckerle, Franz K Huber et al.ARTICLEEconomic Botany2006Cited by: 30References: 34

  • The Role of Barley among the Shuhi in the Tibetan Cultural Area of the Eastern Himalayas

    Open AccessCaroline S Weckerle, Franz K Huber et al.ARTICLEEconomic Botany2005Cited by: 6References: 4

  • Walnuts among the Shuhi in Shuiluo, eastern Himalayas

    Open AccessCaroline S Weckerle, Caroline Weckerle et al.ARTICLEEconomic Botany2005Cited by: 5References: 2