Title:Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalaya
ISBN:9789937506038
Author:None
Editor:Charles Ramble
Martin Brauen
Publisher:Vajra Publications
Publish Year:2008
Edition:Reprinted Edition
Cover:Paper Back
Subject:Anthropology/ Sociology | Tibet | Tibetan History
Language:English
Remarks:B&W Photographs
Pages:441
Size:153 x 230 mm
Weight(gms):645
Price:USD 20.40
Proceeding of the International Seminar on the Anthropology of Tibet and Himalaya September 21 - 28, 1990 at the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich.
Content
Michael alien
Hierarchy and complementarity in Newar eating arrangements
Barbara Nimri Aziz
Shakti Yogamaya: a tradition of dissent in Nepal
Marcia Calkowski
Contesting hierarchy: on gambling as an authoritative resource in Tibetan refugee society
Krystyna Cech
The social and religious identity of the Tibetan bonpos
Dilli R. Dahal
Anthropology of the Nepal Himalaya: a critical appraisal
Hildegard Diemberger
Gangla tshechu, beyul khenbalung: pilgrimage to hidden valleys, sacred mountains and
springs of life water in southern Tibet and eastern Nepal
Gelek
The Tibetan plateau - one of the homes of early man
Nicola Grist
Muslim kinship and marriage in Ladakh
Susanne Von Der Heide
From "British naturalism" to abstract modern painting in Nepal
Reinhard Herdick
Remarks on the orientation of the large stupas in the Kathmandu valley: a discussion of principles of lunar ordering Hiroshi Ishii
Agricultural labour recruitment among the newars and other groups in the sub-himalayan areas
Wolf Kahlen
Thang-stong Rgyal-po - a Leonardo of Tibet
Samten G. Karmay
The wind-horse and the well-being of man
Abbas Kazmithe
Ethnic groups of baltistan
Todd T. Lewis
Himalayan frontier trade: Newar diaspora merchants and buddhism and
Andrea Loseries
Charnel ground traditions in Tibet: some remarks and observations
Ma Lihua
Shamanic belief among nomads in northern Tibet
Gregory G. Maskarinec
Flatter, promise, threaten, kill: a discursive analysis of shamanic mantar
Ernestine L. McHugh
Culture and the transformation of suffering among the gurungs of Nepal
Gudrun Meier
Sammlungen der missionare der herrnhuter brudermission aus ladakh - inhalt und standorte
Beatrice Diamond Miller
Is there Tibetan culture(s)without Buddhism?
Michael Muhlich
Complementary and hierarchical aspects of brahman-chetri social structure
Rohit Kumar Nepali
Culturally appropriate development: an anthropological study of villages in eastern Nepal
Michael Oppitz
Drongo
Bruce McCoy Owens
Blood and bodhisattvas: sacrifice among the newar buddhists of Nepal
Joanna Ffaff-Czarnecka
The nepalese durga puja festival or displaying military supremacy on ritual occasions
Charles Ramble
Rule by play in southern mustang
Hans Roth
The central Asian archive in bonn and the catalogue of the Tibetan and Mongolian culture
Ursula Sagaster
Observations made during the month of muharram, 1989, in baltistan
Geoffrey Samuel
Shamanism, bon and Tibetan religion
Amelia Schenk
Inducing trance: on the training of ladakhi oracle healers
Christian Schicklgruber
Who marries whom and why among the khumbo
Klaus Seeland
Sanskritisation and environmental perception among Tibeto-burman Speaking groups
Prayag R. Sharma
Caste societies in the state of Nepal: a historical perspective
Mark Trewin
Lha-Rnga: a form of Ladakhi folk, music and its relationship to the great tradition of Tibetan Buddhism
Rohit Vohra
Antiquities on the southern arteries of the silk route: ethnic movements and new discoveries
Peter Webster
Some epistemological aspects of caste among the newars in the Kathmandu valley, Nepal
Eugen Wehrli
Tibet research in china by Tibetans and Chinese after 1949
Yang En-Hong
The forms of chanting Gesar and the bon religion in Tibet
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