Research Catalog

Title

Proceedings of the International Seminar on the Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalaya : September 21-28 1990 at the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich / editors, Charles Ramble, Martin Brauen ; co-editors, Beatrice Miller, Gérard Toffin.

Author

International Seminar on the Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalaya : (1990 : Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich).

Publication

[Zürich] : Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Ramble, Charles.
• Brauen, Martin.

Description

441 p. : ill, maps; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Ethnologische Schriften Zürich ; ESZ 12

Uniform Title

Ethnologische Schriften Zürich ; ESZ 12.

Alternative Title

Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalaya.

Subject

• Ethnology > Himalaya Mountains Region > Congresses
• Ethnology > Tibet Autonomous Region > Congresses
• Himalaya Mountains Region > Civilization > Congresses
• Tibet Autonomous Region (China) > Civilization > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• One contribution in German, with summary in English.
• Title from spine and p. [1] of cover: Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalaya.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Hierarchy and complementarity in Newar eating arrangements / Michael Allen -- Shakti Yogamaya / Barbara Nimri Aziz -- Contesting hierarchy / Marcia Calkowski -- The social and religious identity of the Tibetan Bonpos / Krystyna Cech -- Anthropology of the Nepal Himalaya / Dilli R. Dahal -- Gangla tshechu, beyul khenbalung / Hildegard Diemberger -- The Tibetan plateau, one of the homes of early man / Gelek -- Muslim kinship and marriage in Ladakh / Nicola Grist -- From "British naturalism" to abstract modern painting in Nepal / Susanne von der Heide -- Remarks on the orientation of the large stūpas in the Kāthmāndu Valley / Reinhard Herdick.
• Agricultural labour recruitment among the Newars and other groups in the sub-Himalayan areas / Hiroshi Ishii -- Thang-stong rgyal-po, a Leonardo of Tibet / Wolf Kahlen -- The wind-house and the well-being of man / Samten g. Karmay -- The ethnic groups of Baltistan / Abbas Kazmi -- Himalayan frontier trade / Todd T. Lewis -- Charnel ground traditions in Tibet / Andrea Loseries -- Shamanic belief among nomads in northern Tibet / Ma Lihua -- Flatter, promise, threaten, kill / Gregory G. Maskarinec.
• Culture and the transformation of suffering among the Gurungs of Nepal / Ernestine L. McHugh -- Sammlungen der missionare der Herrnhuter Brüder-Mission aus Ladakh, Inhalt und Standorte / Gudrun Meier -- Is there Tibetal culture(s) without Buddhism? / Beatrice Diamond Miller -- Complementary and hierarchical aspects of Brahman-Chetri social structure / Michael Mühlich -- Culturally appropriate development / Rohit Kumar Nepali -- Drongo / Michael Oppitz -- Blood and Bodhisattvas / Bruce McCoy Owens.
• The Nepalese durga-puja festival or displaying military supremacy on ritual occasions / Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka -- Rule by play in southern Mustang / Charles Ramble -- The central Asian Archive in Bonn and the catalogue of the Tibetan and Mongolian culture / Hans Roth -- Observations made during the month of Muharram, 1989, in Baltistan / Ursula Sagaster -- Shamanism, bon and Tibetan religion / Geoffrey Samuel -- Inducing trance / Amelie Schenk -- Who marries whom and why among the Khumbo / Christian Schicklgruber -- Sanskritisation and environmental perception among Tibeto-Burman speaking groups / Klaus Seeland -- Caste societies in the state of Nepal / Prayag R. Sharma -- Lha-rnga / Mark Trewin -- Antiquities on the southern arteries of the Silk Route / Rohit Vohra -- Some epistemological aspects of caste among the Newars in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal / Peter Webster -- Tibet research in China by Tibetans and Chinese after 1949 / Eugen Wehrli -- The forms of chanting gesar and the bon religion of Tibet / Yang En-hong.

ISBN

3909105246 (pbk.)

OCLC

28923247

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library