Himalayan Anthropology : : The Indo-Tibetan Interface / / ed. by James F. Fisher.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: ALLEN, N. J.,; ARDUSSI, JOHN,; BENNETT, LYNN,; BERREMAN, GERALD D.,; BHARATI, AGEHANANDA,; BISTA, DOR BAHADUR,; CAPLAN, A. PATRICIA,; DOHERTY, VICTOR S.,; EKVALL, ROBERT B.,; EPSTEIN, LAWRENCE,; FISHER, JAMES F.,; FOURNIER, ALAN,; FÜRER-HAIMENDORF, CHRISTOPH VON,; GOLDSTEIN, MELVYN C.,; GOODALL, MERRILL R.,; GREENWOLD, STEPHEN MICHAEL,; HITCHCOCK, JOHN T.,; HÖFER, ANDRÁS,; ISHII, HIROSHI,; JACKSON, ANTHONY,; JEST, CORNEILLE,; MESSERSCHMIDT, DONALD A.,; MILLER, BEATRICE D.,; MOODEY, RICHARD W.,; NAKANE, CHIE,; NITZBERG, FRANCES L.,; ORTNER, SHERRY B.,; PETER PRINCE OF GREECE AND DENMARK,,; RAHA, MANIS KUMAR,; ROSE, LEO E.,; SCHMIDT, RUTH L.,; SHAHRANI, M. NAZIF,; SIIGER, H.,; Stablein, William,; TOFFIN, GÉRARD,; TRUNGPA, CHÖGYAM,
• HerausgeberIn: Fisher, James F.,
• 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
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (567 p.) :; 4 maps. 14 plates.
• 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
• 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.