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.

Table of Contents

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