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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781000510973 , 1000510972 , 9781000510867 , 1000510867 , 9781003245209 , 100324520X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource.
    Edition: 1st.
    Series Statement: Studies on modern Asia and Africa 5
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.89482305485
    Keywords: Gond (Indic people) ; Electronic books ; Andhra Pradesh (India) Social conditions
    Abstract: 〈P〉Preface. 1. The Gonds in History and Literature 2. The Material and Cultural Environment 3. The Settlement Pattern 4. The Village as a Social Unit 5. The Neighbourhood 6. Phratries -- The Main Pillars of the Social Structure 7. The Clan System 8. The Feudal System -- Past and Present 9. Pardhans -- The Bards of the Gonds 10. Tribal Justice and Social Values 11. The Mythological Foundations of the Social Order 12. The Early Phases of Life 13. Avenues to Marriage 14. Marriage, Divorce and Inheritance 15. The Kinship System 16. Death and the Cult of the Dead 17. Farming -- The Basis of Gond Economy 18. Religious Beliefs and Practices 19. The Cult of the Clan Deities 20. The Changing Fortunes of the Adilabad Gonds. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.〈/P〉
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  • 2
    Language: English
    Edition: eHRAF World Cultures
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
    RVK:
    Keywords: Sherpa (Nepalese people)
    Abstract: The Sherpa are a Tibetan-speaking people who moved into the valleys of eastern Nepal in the middle of the sixteenth century. They survived as traders transporting goods by Yak across the Himalayas, linking the markets of China to Nepal and India. This collection of 19 documents about the Sherpa covers a period from the 1950s to 1990s. The Sherpa environment, religion, and social change have received the most attention by these authors
    Description / Table of Contents: 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 --^
    Description / Table of Contents: 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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  • 3
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
    RVK:
    Keywords: Sherpa (Nepalese people) ; Sherpa ; Sherpa
    Abstract: The Sherpa are a Tibetan-speaking people who moved into the valleys of eastern Nepal in the middle of the sixteenth century. They survived as traders transporting goods by Yak across the Himalayas, linking the markets of China to Nepal and India. This collection of 19 documents about the Sherpa covers a period from the 1950s to 1990s. The Sherpa environment, religion, and social change have received the most attention by these authors
    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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  • 4
    Language: English
    Edition: eHRAF World Cultures
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
    RVK:
    Keywords: Sherpa (Nepalese people)
    Abstract: The Sherpa are a Tibetan-speaking people who moved into the valleys of eastern Nepal in the middle of the sixteenth century. They survived as traders transporting goods by Yak across the Himalayas, linking the markets of China to Nepal and India. This collection of 19 documents about the Sherpa covers a period from the 1950s to 1990s. The Sherpa environment, religion, and social change have received the most attention by these authors
    Description / Table of Contents: 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 --^
    Description / Table of Contents: 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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  • 5
    ISBN: 9781136545290 , 1136545298
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (184 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography. South Asia 2
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995 Apa Tanis and their neighbours
    DDC: 305.895
    Keywords: Apatani (Indic people) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Apatani (Indic people) ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Inhabiting a secluded valley in the Eastern Himalayas, the Apa Tanis remained virtually unknown to the outside world until 1944-45 when the author spent several months in their villages, studying their internal social structure as well as their political and economic relations with neighbouring tribes. The economy of the Apa Tanis, who knew neither the principle of animal traction nor the wheel, resembled that of certain Neolithic societies, but the methods used in the exploitation of their natural environment were far from primitive, and a developed agriculture enabled a population of some 2
    Note: Originally published: London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1962. - Includes bibliographical references. - Print version record
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