P. Christiaan Klieger, Ph.D., is Research Associate at the Department of Anthropology of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. He is the author of Tibetan Nationalism (1992) and Tibet-o-Rama: Self and Other in a Tale from the Edge of Tibet (2002) and interested in Tibetans in the homeland and abroad on the theme of self-identity construction. Currently he is researching the peoples on the edge of the greater Tibetan cultural area, specifically in northern-most Myanmar (Burma) among the Rawang peoples.