ISBN:
9789047443346
,
9047443349
Language:
English
,
French
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 311 p.)
,
ill., maps.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Brill's Tibetan studies library 1568-6183 v. 20
Series Statement:
Brill's Tibetan studies library v. 20
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Modern Ladakh
DDC:
305.8954
Keywords:
Ladakhi (South Asian people) Social conditions
;
Ladakhi (South Asian people) Case studies
;
Ladakhi (South Asian people) Social conditions
;
Ladakhi (South Asian people) Case studies
;
Social Science
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
;
Ladakhi (South Asian people)
;
Social conditions
;
Gesellschaft
;
Case studies
;
Case studies
;
Ladākh (India) Social conditions
;
Ladakh
;
Ladākh (India) Social conditions
;
Ladakh
;
India ; Ladākh
;
Electronic books
;
Fallstudiensammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Fallstudiensammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Arguing for the need to situate Ladakh in a South Asian context, albeit not neglecting its ties with Tibet, this volume brings together empirical studies from the region to analyse the change and continuity resulting from colonialism, independence and modernisation
Abstract:
Visions of Ladakh: Nicola Grist, 19 April 1957-26 August 2004 / Sophie Day -- Corvée transport labour in 19th and early 20th century Ladakh: a study in continuity and change / John Bray -- Carpet weaving Ladakh and the influence of Sonam Paljor / Monisha Ahmed -- Urbanisation in Kargil and its effects in the Suru valley / Nicola Grist -- Distant neighbours either side of the Omasi La : the Zanskarpa and the Bod communities of Paldar / Isabelle Riaboff -- Calculs pour l'ouverture de la bouche de la terre: étude du temps, géomancie et art divinatoire au Ladakh / Pascale Dollfus -- Small shoes and painted faces: possession states and empbodiment in Buddhist Ladakh / Martin A. Mills -- Reformulating ingredients: outlines of a contemporary ritual for the consecration of medicines in Ladakh / Laurent Pordié -- Dancing in the face of death: Losar celebration in Photoksar / Fernanda Pirie -- Groupes d'unifiliation, parenté et societé à maison au Ladakh (le phaspun) / Patrick Kaplanian -- Women's narrative life histories: implications for maternal and child health in Ladakh / Nancy P. Chin, Tim Dye and Richard Lee -- Land use, land administration and land right in Shigar, Baltistan / Matthias Schmidt -- The introduction of modern chemical fertiliser to the Zangskar valley, Ladakh, and its effects on agricultural productivity, soil quality and Zangskari society / J. Seb Mankelow -- Changing currents: an ethnography of the traditional irrigation practices of Leh town / Sunandan Tiwari and Radhika Gupta.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Chiefly in English; two articles in French. - Description based on print version record
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