Note: 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 , Issued also in print. , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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Note: Sherpas through their rituals - [by] Sherry B. Ortner - 1978 -- - The place of truth in Sherpa law and religion - [by] Robert A. Paul - 1977 -- - Sherpa purity - [by] Sherry B. Ortner - 1973 -- - Culture summary: Sherpa - Robert A. Paul and HRAF Staff (file evaluation and indexing notes) - 2004 -- - The Sherpas of Nepal: Buddhist highlanders - [by] Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf - 1964 -- - Himalayan traders: life in highland Nepal - [by] Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf - 1975 -- - Mani-rimdu: Sherpa dance drama - [by] Luther G. Jerstad - 1969 -- - Sherpas: reflections on change on Himalayan Nepal - [by] James F. Fisher - 1990 -- - The Tibetan symbolic world: psychoanalytic explorations - [by] Robert A. Paul - 1982 -- - The Sherpas of the Khumbu region - [by] Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf - 1963 -- , - High religion: a cultural and political history of Sherpa Buddhism - [by] Sherry B. Ortner - 1989 -- - Livestock and landscape: the Sherpa pastoral system in Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) National Park, Nepal - [by] Barbara Anne Brower - 1987 [1990 copy] -- - Sherpa settlement and subsistance: cultural ecology and history in highland Nepal - [by] Stanley Francis Stevens - 1990 -- - Dreams of a final Sherpa - Vincanne Adams - 1997 -- - Production of self and body in Sherpa-Tibetan society - Vincanne Adams - 1992 -- - Fire of Himal: an anthropological study of the Sherpas of Nepal Himalayan region - Ramesh Raj Kunwar - 1989 -- - Biocultural adaptations of the high altitude Sherpas of Nepal - Charles A. Weitz - 1984 -- - The Sherpas transformed: social change in a Buddhist society of Nepal - Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf - 1984 -- - Recruitment to monasticism among the Sherpas - Robert A. Paul - 1990 -- - The waterspirits and the position of women among the Sherpa - Michael Mühlich - 1997

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