Himalayan Households
Title | Himalayan Households PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Earl Fricke |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780231100076 |
Reprint of the UMI Research Press work originally published in 1986 in the series Studies in Cultural Anthropology. Contains a new (5pp.) introduction. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Himalayan Households
Title | Himalayan Households PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Earl Fricke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1993 |
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Himalayan Households Tamang Demography And Domestic Processes
Title | Himalayan Households Tamang Demography And Domestic Processes PDF eBook |
Author | T. Fricke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9788121104005 |
Throughout the Nepal Himalaya socio-economic changes are transforming the lives of remote agropastoral peoples, bringing them into new relationships with once-distant elities. This book is a comprehensive study of the cultural ecology, demography, and domestic organization of one village undergoing these changes. The Tamang community of Timling faced for the first time with an inability to procure most subsistence needs from their local environment. These Tamang have joined the flow of people from rural Nepal who compete for wage labor to supplement their household economies. These changes are profoundly altering internal village relationships which are organized by both marriage and an ethic of reciprocity.
Himalayan Histories
Title | Himalayan Histories PDF eBook |
Author | Chetan Singh |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2018-12-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1438475233 |
Himalayan Histories, by one of India's most reputed historians of the Himalaya, is essential for a more complete understanding of Indian history. Because Indian historians have mainly studied riverine belts and life in the plains, sophisticated mountain histories are relatively rare. In this book, Chetan Singh identifies essential aspects of the material, mental, and spiritual world of western Himalayan peasant society. Human enterprise and mountainous terrain long existed in a precarious balance, occasionally disrupted by natural adversity, in this large and difficult region. Small peasant communities lived in scattered environmental niches and tenaciously extracted from their harsh surroundings a rudimentary but sustainable livelihood. These communities were integral constituents of larger political economies that asserted themselves through institutions of hegemonic control, the state being one such institution. This laboriously created life-world was enlivened by myth, folklore, legend, and religious tradition. When colonial rule was established in the region during the nineteenth century, it transformed the peasants' relationship with their natural surroundings. While old political allegiances were weakened, resilient customary hierarchies retained their influence through religio-cultural practices.
Man and His House in the Himalayas
Title | Man and His House in the Himalayas PDF eBook |
Author | Gérard Toffin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
Love and Family Life
Title | Love and Family Life PDF eBook |
Author | Swami Rama |
Publisher | Himalayan Institute Press |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2007-02-08 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9780893891336 |
Guides the reader to understand the interplay between loving relationships and the path to spirituality.
The Himalayan Dilemma
Title | The Himalayan Dilemma PDF eBook |
Author | Jack D. Ives |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2003-09-02 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1134982410 |
`This is an important book that deserves to be read by everyone concerned with presenting major environmental issues.' Geography ` ... an essential text for policy makers and aid professionals, as well as for students of environmental studies and international development ... It is indeed, a book appropriate to the urgent and critical issues which it addresses.' - Journal of Environmental Management