TY  - BOOK
AU  - ALLEN,N.J.
AU  - ARDUSSI,JOHN
AU  - BENNETT,LYNN
AU  - BERREMAN,GERALD D.
AU  - BHARATI,AGEHANANDA
AU  - BISTA,DOR BAHADUR
AU  - CAPLAN,A.PATRICIA
AU  - DOHERTY,VICTOR S.
AU  - EKVALL,ROBERT B.
AU  - EPSTEIN,LAWRENCE
AU  - FISHER,JAMES F.
AU  - FOURNIER,ALAN
AU  - Fisher,James F.
AU  - FÜRER-HAIMENDORF,CHRISTOPH VON
AU  - GOLDSTEIN,MELVYN C.
AU  - GOODALL,MERRILL R.
AU  - GREENWOLD,STEPHEN MICHAEL
AU  - HITCHCOCK,JOHN T.
AU  - HÖFER,ANDRÁS
AU  - ISHII,HIROSHI
AU  - JACKSON,ANTHONY
AU  - JEST,CORNEILLE
AU  - MESSERSCHMIDT,DONALD A.
AU  - MILLER,BEATRICE D.
AU  - MOODEY,RICHARD W.
AU  - NAKANE,CHIE
AU  - NITZBERG,FRANCES L.
AU  - ORTNER,SHERRY B.
AU  - PETER PRINCE OF GREECE AND DENMARK
AU  - RAHA,MANIS KUMAR
AU  - ROSE,LEO E.
AU  - SCHMIDT,RUTH L.
AU  - SHAHRANI,M.NAZIF
AU  - SIIGER,H.
AU  - Stablein,William
AU  - TOFFIN,GÉRARD
AU  - TRUNGPA,CHÖGYAM
TI  - Himalayan Anthropology: The Indo-Tibetan Interface 
T2  - World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
SN  - 9789027977007
AV  - GN635.H55 H5
U1  - 301.29/54 
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton, 
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Himalaya Mountains
KW  - Congresses
KW  - HISTORY / Ancient / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110806496
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110806496
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110806496/original
ER  -