Himalayan Anthropology: The Indo-Tibetan Interface

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Himalayan Anthropology

The Indo-Tibetan Interface

Edited by: James F. Fisher

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1978

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World Anthropology

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I-IV Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	I
General Editor's Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	V
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	IX
Introduction JAMES F. FISHER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
SECTION ONE General Issues
Fourfold Classifications of Society in the Himalayas N. J. ALLEN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	7
Kinship and Culture in the Himalayan Region RICHARD W. MOODEY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	27
Cultural Implications of Tibetan History CHIE NAKANE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	37
Homo hierarchicus Nepalensis: A Cultural Subspecies JAMES F. FISHER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	43
Hierarchy or Stratification? Two Case Studies from Nepal and East Africa A. PATRICIA CAPLAN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	53
Himalayan Research: What, Whither, and Whether GERALD D. BERREMAN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	67
SECTION TWO The South Asian Perspective
Actual and Ideal Himalayas: Hindu Views of the Mountains AGEHANANDA BHARATI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	77
Stratification and Religion in a Himalayan Society MANIS KUMAR RAHA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
Changing Patterns of Multiethnic Interaction in the Western Himalayas FRANCES L. NITZBERG Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
An Additional Perspective on the Nepali Caste System JOHN T. HITCHCOCK Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	111
Maiti-Ghar: The Dual Role of High Caste Women in Nepal LYNN BENNETT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	121
Dhikurs: Rotating Credit Associations in Nepal DONALD A. MESSERSCHMIDT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	141
The Role of the Priest in Sunuwar Society ALAN FOURNIER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	167
A New Rural Elite in Central Nepal ANDRÁS HÖFER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	179
Nepalis in Tibet DOR BAHADUR BISTA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	187
Modernizing a Traditional Administrative System: Sikkim 1890-1973 LEO E. ROSE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	205
Bureaucracy and Bureaucrats: A Few Themes Drawn from the Nepal Experience MERRILL R. GOODALL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
SECTION THREE The Central Asian Perspective
The Retention of Pastoralism among the Kirghiz of the Afghan Pamirs M. NAZIF SHAHRANI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	233
Correlation of Contradictions: A Tibetan Semantic Device ROBERT B. EKVALL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	251
The White-Black Ones: The Sherpa View of Human Nature SHERRY B. ORTNER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	263
Tibetan Oracles PETER PRINCE OF GREECE AND DENMARK Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	287
Some Aspects of Pön CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	299
Tibetan Bon Rites in China: A Case of Cultural Diffusion ANTHONY JACKSON Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	309
The Saintly Madman in Tibet JOHN ARDUSSI and LAWRENCE EPSTEIN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	327
Trans-Himalayan Traders in Transition CHRISTOPH VON FÜRER-HAIMENDORF Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	339
Tibetan Communities of the High Valleys of Nepal: Life in an Exceptional Environment and Economy CORNEILLE JEST Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	359
Tibetan Culture and Personality: Refugee Responses to a Culture-Bound TAT BEATRICE D. MILLER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	365
Εthnogenesis and Resource Competition among Tibetan Refugees in South India: A New Face to the Indo-Tibetan Interface MELVYN C. GOLDSTEIN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	395
The "Abominable Snowman": Himalayan Religion and Folklore from the Lepchas of Sikkim H. SIIGER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	421
SECTION FOUR Perspectives Merged: The Newars
Notes on the Origins of the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal VICTOR S. DOHERTY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	433
Symbolic Fields in Nepalese Religious Iconography: A Preliminary Investigation RUTH L. SCHMIDT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	447
Intercaste Relations in a Newar Community GÉRARD TOFFIN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	461
The Role of the Priest in Newar Society STEPHEN MICHAEL GREENWOLD Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	483
Structure and Change of a Newari Festival Organization HIROSHI ISHII Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	505
A Descriptive Analysis of the Content of Nepalese Buddhist Pūjās as a Medical-Cultural System with References to Tibetan Parallels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	529
Biographical Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	539
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	547
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	553

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9783110806496

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January 1, 1979

Hardcover ISBN:

9789027977007

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16

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567

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16

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11

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4 maps. 14 plates.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110806496

eBook ISBN: 9783110806496

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