Himalayan Anthropology : : The Indo-Tibetan Interface / / ed. by James F. Fisher.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011] ©1978 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Edition: | Reprint 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (567 p.) :; 4 maps. 14 plates. |
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Other title: | I-IV -- General Editor's Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE General Issues -- Fourfold Classifications of Society in the Himalayas -- Kinship and Culture in the Himalayan Region -- Cultural Implications of Tibetan History -- Homo hierarchicus Nepalensis: A Cultural Subspecies -- Hierarchy or Stratification? Two Case Studies from Nepal and East Africa -- Himalayan Research: What, Whither, and Whether -- SECTION TWO The South Asian Perspective -- Actual and Ideal Himalayas: Hindu Views of the Mountains -- Stratification and Religion in a Himalayan Society -- Changing Patterns of Multiethnic Interaction in the Western Himalayas -- An Additional Perspective on the Nepali Caste System -- Maiti-Ghar: The Dual Role of High Caste Women in Nepal -- Dhikurs: Rotating Credit Associations in Nepal -- The Role of the Priest in Sunuwar Society -- A New Rural Elite in Central Nepal -- Nepalis in Tibet -- Modernizing a Traditional Administrative System: Sikkim 1890-1973 -- Bureaucracy and Bureaucrats: A Few Themes Drawn from the Nepal Experience -- SECTION THREE The Central Asian Perspective -- The Retention of Pastoralism among the Kirghiz of the Afghan Pamirs -- Correlation of Contradictions: A Tibetan Semantic Device -- The White-Black Ones: The Sherpa View of Human Nature -- Tibetan Oracles -- Some Aspects of Pön -- Tibetan Bon Rites in China: A Case of Cultural Diffusion -- The Saintly Madman in Tibet -- Trans-Himalayan Traders in Transition -- Tibetan Communities of the High Valleys of Nepal: Life in an Exceptional Environment and Economy -- Tibetan Culture and Personality: Refugee Responses to a Culture-Bound TAT -- Εthnogenesis and Resource Competition among Tibetan Refugees in South India: A New Face to the Indo-Tibetan Interface -- The "Abominable Snowman": Himalayan Religion and Folklore from the Lepchas of Sikkim -- SECTION FOUR Perspectives Merged: The Newars -- Notes on the Origins of the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal -- Symbolic Fields in Nepalese Religious Iconography: A Preliminary Investigation -- Intercaste Relations in a Newar Community -- The Role of the Priest in Newar Society -- Structure and Change of a Newari Festival Organization -- A Descriptive Analysis of the Content of Nepalese Buddhist Pūjās as a Medical-Cultural System with References to Tibetan Parallels -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects |
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Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110806496 9783110649680 9783110635997 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110806496 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by James F. Fisher. |