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From a Trickle to a Torrent : Education, Migration, and Social Change in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2018 [©2018]

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Print version: Childs, Geoff : From a Trickle to a Torrent : Education, Migration, and Social Change in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal. - Berkeley : University of California Press,c2018

978-0-520-97121-9 ( : electronic bk.)

978-0-520-29952-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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What happens to a community when the majority of young people leave their homes to pursue an education? From a Trickle to a Torrent documents the demographic and social consequences of educational migration from Nubri, a Tibetan enclave in the highlands of Nepal. The authors explore parents' motivations for sending their children to distant schools and monasteries, social connections that shape migration pathways, young people's estrangement from village life, and dilemmas that arise when educated individuals are unable or unwilling to return and reside in their native villages. Drawing on numerous decades of research, this study documents a transitional period when the future of a Himalayan society teeters on the brink of irreversible change

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Cover -- From a Trickle to a Torrent -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Predicaments, Presumptions, and Procedures -- An Empty Nest -- The Enduring Yet Ephemeral Village -- Managing the Family through Migration -- Studying Longitudinal Change -- The Household as a Unit of Analysis -- 2. Moving In before Moving Out -- A Peripheral Region of Darkness -- Excavating the Ethnic Strata -- The Center Comes to the Periphery -- Completing the Buddhist Transformation -- Conquest and Indirect Rule -- Continuity amid Political Change -- Contemporary Convulsions -- 3. Embedding the Household in the Village -- Rituals of Protection -- The Household in Demography, Anthropology, and Nubri -- Binding Households through Religious Cooperation -- Liturgy, Income, and Mobility -- 4. Whither the Young People? -- Portents of a Barley Harvest -- Tibetan Exiles and the Emergence of Migration Pull Factors -- The Demography of Supply and Demand -- The Pathways and Magnitude of Outmigration -- 5. Becoming Monks -- Family Obligations versus Religious Aspirations -- Between Ontological Realms -- On the Merits of Monastic Migration -- Childhood Inclinations and Monastic Migration -- Religious Networks and Migration Destinations -- The Revival of Mass Monasticism -- 6. Becoming Nuns -- The Nun Serves Her Family -- From Servant (yogmo) to Disciple (lobma) -- Pathways to Celibacy -- Gender and the Precariousness of Virtue -- Demise of the Village Nun? -- 7. Becoming Students -- The Son Goes First -- Educating Nubri Children: A Fitful Start -- Valuing Education -- The Efficacy of Strong and Weak Ties -- Reproducing Inequality? -- 8. The Household Succession Quandary -- A Monk Returns -- The Educated Son Conundrum -- The Educated Daughter Dilemma -- Unbecoming Monks