Research Catalog

Title

Nomads of western Tibet : the survival of a way of life / photography and text by Melvyn C. Goldstein and Cynthia M. Beall.

Author

Goldstein, Melvyn C.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, [©1990]

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Additional Authors

Beall, Cynthia M.

Description

191 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm

Subject

• Nomads > China > Tibet Autonomous Region > Social life and customs
• Nomads > China > Tibet Autonomous Region > Economic conditions
• Nomads > Government policy > China > Tibet Autonomous Region
• Manners and customs
• Nomads > Economic conditions
• Nomads > Government policy
• Nomads > Social life and customs
• Nomaden
• Nomads > China > Tibet Autonomous Region
• Tibet Autonomous Region (China) > Social life and customs
• China > Tibet Autonomous Region

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 185) and index.

Contents

Preface -- Our arrival in nomad country -- The changtang and nomadic pastoralism -- Nomads, lords, and estates in the traditional society -- The nomadic economy and the cycle of annual migration -- Pasture allocation and reallocation -- Horses and the hay cutting trip -- Livestock in the pastoral community -- Herders and daily herding -- Diet -- The salt trek -- Hunting -- The nomads become part of China : the 1959 uprising -- The cultural revolution and pastoral communes, 1966 to 1981 -- China's post-cultural revolution Tibet policy -- Economic and social change under the new policy -- Conservation of the environment and the future of Tibet's indigenous Nomadic pastoralist -- Afterword : the status of nomadic pastoralism in Pala, 1986 to 1988.

ISBN

• 0520072103
• 9780520072107
• 0520072111
• 9780520072114

LCCN

90010892

OCLC

• ocm21338422
• 21338422
• SCSB-1941216

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library