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, About the Author

C. R. , Paris) and a member of the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE -PSL), where she is currently working within the framework of the ANR/DFG funded research project Social Status in the Tibetan World (TibStat), Lucia Galli is a research fellow at the Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l' Asie orientale