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Himalayan Buddhist villages : environment, resources, society and religious life in Zangskar, Ladakh / John Crook and Henry Osmaston, editors.
- Title
- Himalayan Buddhist villages : environment, resources, society and religious life in Zangskar, Ladakh / John Crook and Henry Osmaston, editors.
- Publication
- Bristol, U.K. : University of Bristol, 1994.
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- Description
- xxx, 866 p., [80] p. of plates. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Note
- "The International Association for Ladakh Studies"--P. preceeding t.p.
- Errata and addenda slip inserted.
- Map on lining papers.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The geology, geomorphology, and quaternary history of Zangskar / Henry Osmaston -- Human adaption to environment in Zangskar / Henry Osmaston, Janet Frazer, and Stamati Crook -- The Tibetan calendar and astrology in the regulation of Zangskari agriculture / Tashi Rabgyas and Henry Osmaston -- Weight and measures used in Ladakh / Henry Osmaston and Tashi Rabgyas -- The farming system / Henry Osmaston -- Animal husbandry in Zangskar / Henry Osmaston ... [et al.] -- Sha-de / Henry Osmaston and John Crook -- Butter-trading down the Zangskar gorge / James Crowden -- The population of sTongde, Zangskar / Robert Attenborough -- Kumik / Jonathan Elford -- Work patterns in two Zangskar villages / Robert Attenborough -- Nutrition / R. Attenborough, M. Attenborough, and A.R. Leeds -- Health in Zangskar / Keith Ball and Jonathan Elford -- The history of Zangskar / John Crook -- social organisation and personal identity in Zangskar / John Crook -- Birth and child rearing in Zanskar / Helena Norberg-Hodge with Hazel Russell -- Zangskari attitudes / John Crook.
- Lamas of Zangskar and the origin of Tibetan studies in the west / Nawang Tsering Shakspo -- Monastic communities in Zangskar / Tsering Shakya, Tashi Rabgyas and John Crook -- The essential insight / Tashi Rabgyas and John Crook -- The Yogins of Ladakh / John Crook -- Six families of Leh / John Crook and Tsering Shakya -- Explaining Tibetan polyandry / John Crook -- Socio-economic transition in Zangskar / Sandhya Gokhale-Chatterji -- Tradition, development and conservation in Ladakh / John Crook.
- ISBN
- 0862923867
- LCCN
- ^^^87179100^
- OCLC
- 30915716
- SCSB-10026099
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library