Fourfold Classifications of Society in the Himalayas

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. General Editor's Preface V
3. Foreword IX
4. Introduction 1
5. SECTION ONE General Issues
6. Fourfold Classifications of Society in the Himalayas 7
7. Kinship and Culture in the Himalayan Region 27
8. Cultural Implications of Tibetan History 37
9. Homo hierarchicus Nepalensis: A Cultural Subspecies 43
10. Hierarchy or Stratification? Two Case Studies from Nepal and East Africa 53
11. Himalayan Research: What, Whither, and Whether 67
12. SECTION TWO The South Asian Perspective
13. Actual and Ideal Himalayas: Hindu Views of the Mountains 77
14. Stratification and Religion in a Himalayan Society 83
15. Changing Patterns of Multiethnic Interaction in the Western Himalayas 103
16. An Additional Perspective on the Nepali Caste System 111
17. Maiti-Ghar: The Dual Role of High Caste Women in Nepal 121
18. Dhikurs: Rotating Credit Associations in Nepal 141
19. The Role of the Priest in Sunuwar Society 167
20. A New Rural Elite in Central Nepal 179
21. Nepalis in Tibet 187
22. Modernizing a Traditional Administrative System: Sikkim 1890-1973 205
23. Bureaucracy and Bureaucrats: A Few Themes Drawn from the Nepal Experience 227
24. SECTION THREE The Central Asian Perspective
25. The Retention of Pastoralism among the Kirghiz of the Afghan Pamirs 233
26. Correlation of Contradictions: A Tibetan Semantic Device 251
27. The White-Black Ones: The Sherpa View of Human Nature 263
28. Tibetan Oracles 287
29. Some Aspects of Pön 299
30. Tibetan Bon Rites in China: A Case of Cultural Diffusion 309
31. The Saintly Madman in Tibet 327
32. Trans-Himalayan Traders in Transition 339
33. Tibetan Communities of the High Valleys of Nepal: Life in an Exceptional Environment and Economy 359
34. Tibetan Culture and Personality: Refugee Responses to a Culture-Bound TAT 365
35. Εthnogenesis and Resource Competition among Tibetan Refugees in South India: A New Face to the Indo-Tibetan Interface 395
36. The "Abominable Snowman": Himalayan Religion and Folklore from the Lepchas of Sikkim 421
37. SECTION FOUR Perspectives Merged: The Newars
38. Notes on the Origins of the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal 433
39. Symbolic Fields in Nepalese Religious Iconography: A Preliminary Investigation 447
40. Intercaste Relations in a Newar Community 461
41. The Role of the Priest in Newar Society 483
42. Structure and Change of a Newari Festival Organization 505
43. A Descriptive Analysis of the Content of Nepalese Buddhist Pūjās as a Medical-Cultural System with References to Tibetan Parallels 529
44. Biographical Notes 539
45. Index of Names 547
46. Index of Subjects 553