Alice Travers

Biographic Data

ID5647669
NAMEAlice Travers
GIVEN NAMESAlice
FAMILY NAMETravers
SIGNATURETRAVERS A
AFFILIATIONSCentre de recherche sur les civilisations de l’Asie orientale; Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris, France
ORCID0000-0002-6332-434X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX0

  • Le lion des neiges

    Alice TraversARTICLEL' Histoire2023

  • “When You Count, Everything Is There, and When Everything Is There, Everything Vanishes”

    Alice TraversCHAPTERTaxation in Tibetan Societies2023

    "Chapter 3 “When You Count, Everything Is There, and When Everything Is There, Everything Vanishes”: A Criticism of Tax Collecting in Ngamring District (rdzong) during the First Half of the 20th Century" published on 13 Jan 2023 by Brill

  • Taxation in Tibetan Societies

    Alice Travers, Peter Schwieger et al.EDITORBOOKTaxation in Tibetan Societies2023

  • Armour and Weapons in Tibetan Culture An Introduction

    Open AccessFederica Venturi, Alice TraversARTICLEAnnali di Ca’ Foscari Serie…2021

  • From Matchlocks to Machine Guns

    Open AccessAlice TraversARTICLEAnnali di Ca’ Foscari Serie…2021

    Between 1895 and 1950, the Tibetan government took several steps to improve the firearms and artillery of its troops, setting up local factories and negotiating with foreign powers to purchase arms manufactured abroad. These imports were directly related to the political relationship with these countries and required the introduction and diffusion of new knowledge and techniques among Tibetan troops. Based on Tibetan and English sources, this art…

  • The Production of Collective Memory in the Tibetan-Language Materials for the Culture and History of Tibet (1981–2014)

    Alice TraversCHAPTERConflicting Memories2020

    This chapter aims to demonstrate the historiographic significance of a collection of published testimonies based on oral history, entitled Bod kyi rig gnas lo rgyus dpyad gzhi’i rgyu cha bdams bsgrigs (“Selection of Source Materials for the Study of the Culture and History of Tibet”; Ch. Xizang wenshi ziliao xuanji). This Tibetan-language series, consisting of 30 volumes published between 1981 and 2014 on the initiative of the Chinese People’s Po…

  • Le bouddhisme comme fin et moyens de l’armée du Ganden Phodrang

    Alice Travers, Federica VenturiARTICLECahiers d Extrême-Asie2018

    Travers Alice, Venturi Federica. Le bouddhisme comme fin et moyens de l’armée du Ganden Phodrang : une introduction aux relations des sphères bouddhique et militaire au Tibet (1642-1959). In: Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, vol. 27, 2018. Le bouddhisme et l'armée au Tibet pendant la période du Ganden Phodrang (1642-1959) / Buddhism and the Millitary in Tibet during the Ganden Phodrang Period (1642-1959) pp. 1-11

  • Monk Officials as Military Officers in the Tibetan Ganden Phodrang Army (1895–1959)

    Alice TraversARTICLECahiers d Extrême-Asie2018

    De la même façon que l’administration du Ganden Phodrang en général était composée de fonctionnaires laïcs et ecclésiastiques, le secteur militaire du Ganden Phodrang incluait également ces deux types de fonctionnaires. Basé sur des biographies et des autobiographies tibétaines et sur des archives britanniques, cet article analyse le rôle des fonctionnaires ecclésiastiques (rtse drung) dans l’organisation militaire gouvernementale de la première …

  • Buddhism, Both the Means and the End of the Ganden Phodrang Army

    Alice Travers, Federica VenturiARTICLECahiers d Extrême-Asie2018

    Travers Alice, Venturi Federica. Buddhism, Both the Means and the End of the Ganden Phodrang Army: An Introduction to Buddhism vis-à-vis the Military in Tibet (1642–1959). In: Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, vol. 27, 2018. Le bouddhisme et l'armée au Tibet pendant la période du Ganden Phodrang (1642-1959) / Buddhism and the Millitary in Tibet during the Ganden Phodrang Period (1642-1959) pp. 13-22

  • The lCags stag dmag khrims (1950)

    Alice TraversCHAPTERSocial Regulation: Case Studies…2017

  • The Horse-Riding and Target-Shooting Contest for Lay Officials (drung ’khor rtsal rgyugs)

    Alice TraversARTICLEÉtudes mongoles et sibériennes2011References: 2

    Based on autobiographical written and oral accounts by Tibetan aristocrats, this article aims to discuss the Horse-Riding and Target-Shooting Contest for Lay Officials (drung ’khor rtsal rgyugs). Its origins, its evolutions during the first half of the 20th century, and its significance help to understand the link between the Tibetan aristocracy and the military domain. Though the Tibetan aristocracy was mainly an administrative elite and can the…