Himalayan anthropology: the Indo-Tibetan interface /editor, James F. Fisher.. --

From 1963 to 2011 Pacific Linguistics, located at the Australian National University, published over six hundred books concerned with the languages of the Pacific, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Southeast, South and East Asia. The Mouton Pacific Linguistics series represents a continuation of this publishing venture under the same Editorial Board. The Pacific Linguistics series presents linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, and other materials concerned with languages of this region. The authors and editors of Pacific Linguistics publications are drawn from a wide range of institutions around the world, and its publications are refereed by international scholars with relevant expertise. Pacific Linguistics has built a reputation as the most authoritative publisher of works on the languages of the Pacific and neighbouring areas, read by scholars with an interest in the region as well as by linguists with interests in language typology, sociolinguistics, language contact and the reconstruction of linguistic change and culture history. Pacific Linguistics is proud to act as a vehicle for the dissemination of knowledge about the languages of the Pacific and the Pacific Rim, many of which are little known, and to bring them to the attention of scholars around the world, as well as providing local communities with published language material, at a time when many minority languages are under threat. 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 Bön 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 Tibetan Culture-Bound TAT Ethnogenesis 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 Editor, James F. Fisher. Papers Presented At A Symposium Held During The Ixth International Congress Of Anthropological And Ethnological Sciences. Includes Bibliographies And Indexes. Format Hardcover Subject Natural Terrain Mountains Publisher De Gruyter