梅爾文・戈爾茨坦（英語：Melvyn Goldstein，1938 年 2 月 8 日 —）是一名美國社會人類學家、藏學家，深入研究西藏社會、歷史、現代政治、一夫多妻制等等。

出生於紐約市，先後從密西根大學取得歷史學學士和碩士，再從華盛頓大學取得人類學博士，其後長期擔任凱斯西儲大學人類學教授。



爭議

戈爾茨坦被同行認為立場親中，他的研究經常得到中國政府的協助，能夠從中國政府方面拿到其它西方學者得不到的材料，在西方學界有「親中」的名聲。他是一個資料工作做得比較好的學者，即使不同意他的觀點的人，也很重視他所收集的文獻和實地調查資料。嘉央諾布指其著作抹黑西藏歷史，並引用諾貝爾經濟學獎得主阿馬蒂亞・庫馬爾・森的話：「可疑的歷史無法為可疑的政治辯護」。



家庭

他娶了西藏貴族噶倫索康・旺欽格勒的女兒。



中譯本


* 《今日西藏牧民：美國人眼中的西藏》，上海：上海翻譯出版公司:,1991 年 9 月，ISBN 7-80514-784-1。書名原文 Nomads of Western Tibet the survival of a way of life。本書根據香港奧達斯製作有限公司 1990 年版譯出。本書描繪了藏族牧民傳統的游牧生活方式，遭遇以及現狀，並精選了 212 張攝影照片。

* 《喇嘛王國的覆滅》，杜永彬 譯，北京：時事出版社，1994 年 6 月，ISBN 7-80009-219-4。書名原文：A history of modern tibet 1913-1951 the demise of the Lamaist state。本書考察研究了藏傳佛教王國近 40 年衰亡的過程及其原因。

* 《西藏現代史 1951-1955 暴風雨之前的平靜》，2014 年 7 月，香港大學出版社。

* 《現代西藏史：1955-1957》，彭雲 譯，2019 年 11 月，香港中文大學出版社。

* 《現代西藏史：1957-1959》，彭雲 譯，2021 年 10 月，香港中文大學出版社。



出版物

書籍


* _A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 1: 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State_. University of California Press. 1989, ISBN 0-520-07590-0

* _The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet and the Dalai Lama_, University of California Press, 1997.

* (with William Siebenschuh, and Tashi Tsering), _The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering_, Armonk, NY: M.E.Sharpe, Inc. 1997.

* Chinese Edition of _The Struggle for a Modern Tibet: the Life of Tashi Tsering_, Mirror Books, Carle Place, NY., 2000.

* _A New Tibetan English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan_, University of California Press, Pp. 1200, 2001.

* (with Dawei Sherap, William Siebenschuh), _A Tibetan Revolutionary. The Political Life of Bapa Phüntso Wangye_, University of California Press, 2004.

* _A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 2: The Calm Before the Storm: 1951-1955_, University of California Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-520-24941-7.

* (with Ben Jiao, Tanzen Lhundrup), _On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet: The Nyemo Incident of 1969_, University of California Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-520-25682-8.

* _A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 3: The Storm Clouds Descend, 1955–1957_, University of California Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-520-27651-2.

期刊論文


* "Stratification, Polyandry and Family Structure in Tibet," in _Southwestern Journal of Anthropology_ 27, No. 1: 64-74, 1971.

* "Serfdom and Mobility: An Examination of the Institution of "Human Lease" in Traditional Tibetan Society," in _The Journal of Asian Studies_, May 1971, vol. 30, issue 3, pp. 521-534.

* "Fraternal Polyandry and Fertility in a High Himalayan Valley in Northwest Nepal," in _Human Ecology_, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 223–233, 1976.

* "Pahari and Tibetan Polyandry Revisited," in _Ethnology_, 17(3): 325-347, 1978.

* (with P. Tsarong), "Tibetan Buddhist Monasticism: Social, Psychological and Cultural Implications," in _The Tibet Journal_, 10(1): 14-31, 1985.

* "Re-examining Choice, Dependency and Command in the Tibetan Social System. "Tax Appendages" and Other Landless Serfs," in _The Tibet Journal_, vol. XI, No 4, 1986, pp. 79-112.

* "When Brothers Share a Wife," in _Natural History_, March, 1987.

* "On the Nature of Tibetan Peasantry," in _The Tibet Journal_, vol. XIII, No 1, 1988, pp. 61-65.

* "Freedom, Servitude and the "Servant Serf" Nyima," in _The Tibet Journal_, vol. XIV, No 2, 1989, pp. 56-60.

* (with Cynthia M. Beall), "China's Birth Control Policy in the Tibet Autonomous Region," in _Asian Survey_, vol. 31, No 3, 1991, pp. 286-303.

* "The Dalai Lama's Dilemma （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）," in _Foreign Affairs_, vol. 77, No. 1, January/February 1998.

* (with Ben Jiao, Cynthia M. Beall & Phuntso Tsering), "Fertility & Family Planning in Rural Tibet （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）," in _The China Journal_, Issue 1, 2002.

* (with G. Childs, Phujung Wangdui), "Beijing's 'People First' development initiative for the Tibet Autonomous Region's rural sector — a case study from the Shigatse area （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）," in _The China Journal_, 2010, Vol. 63, pp. 59–78.

* (with Cynthia M. Beall), "Changing patterns of Tibetan nomadic pastoralism," In _Human Biology of Pastoral Populations_, Leonard and Crawford (eds.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 131–150.

書籍章節


* "Adjudication and Partition in the Tibetan Stem Family," in D. Buxbaum (ed.), _Chinese Family Law and Social Change_, University of Washington Press, 1978.

* "The Revival of Monastic Life in Drepung Monastery," in Goldstein and Kapstein (eds.), _Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival & Cultural Identity_, pp. 16–52, 1998a.

* "Introduction," in Goldstein and Kapstein (eds.), _Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival & Cultural Identity_, pp. 1–15, 1998b.

* (with Cynthia M. Beall), "Changing patterns of Tibetan nomadic pastoralism," in _Human Biology of Pastoral Populations_, Leonard and Crawford (eds.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 131–150.

* "Tibetan Buddhism and Mass Monasticism," in _Des moines et des moniales dans le monde. La vie monastique dans le miroir de la parenté_ (ss la dir. de Adeline Herrou et Gisele Krauskopff), Presses universitaires de Toulouse-le Mirail, 2010.

特別報告


* _Tibet, China and the United States: Reflections on the Tibet Question_ （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）, Occasional Paper Series, The Atlantic Council of the United States, April 1995, 89 p.