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.